Bibliographic information
GuidelineSystematic screening for active tuberculosis: principles and recommendations
Year of Publication2013
Issuing InstitutionWHO
Recommendation
New
(b) Systematic screening for active TB may be considered also for other subpopulations that have very poor access to health care, such as people living in urban slums, homeless people, people living in remote areas with poor access to health care, and other vulnerable or marginalized groups including some indigenous populations, migrants and refugees.
Recommended in favor
Conditional
Certainty of evidence
Very low