Health Information Portal (HIP)

Tuberculosis (TB) Toolkit

This toolkit includes a set of resources that your facility can utilize to manage and control Tuberculosis (TB) in your facility and to communicate TB information to other healthcare providers, patients and families. Additional PDPH infection control resources can be found here.

Tools for Healthcare Providers

• Healthcare Happenings: Tuberculosis Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Highlight
• Tuberculosis Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Recommendations
• Tuberculosis Screening, Testing, and Treatment and U.S. Health Care Personnel: Recommendations from the National Tuberculosis Controllers Association and CDC, 2019
• Tuberculosis in Philadelphia Congregate Care Settings (CCS), 2022 Fact Sheet
• Latent TB Infection (LTBI) U.S. Recommendations
• Mantoux Tuberculin Skin Test
• Tuberculosis Risk Assessment: Adults
• Tuberculosis Risk Assessment Guide: Adults
• Tuberculosis Risk Assessment: Pediatric
• Tuberculosis Risk Assessment Guide: Pediatric
• Updated Recommendations for TB Screening, Testing, Treatment
• Take on Tuberculosis
• Latent Tuberculosis
• Tip of the Iceberg

Tools for Reporting Confirmed or Suspected TBD

• Tuberculosis Reporting in Philadelphia
• Division of Disease Control - TB Adult Reporting Form
• PDPH TB Control Pediatric Report/Consultation Form

Tools for Facility Leadership

• Appendix B. Tuberculosis (TB) Risk Assessment Worksheet
• TB Exposure Control Plan for Long-Term Care Facilities

General Tuberculosis Information

• Questions and Answers about Tuberculosis
• "Think TB" Poster
• "Stop TB" Poster