PM-M02_03: Specimen collection and transportation
- Sputum Collection Process
- Spot and early morning sputum sample
- Steps to Ensure a Good Quality Sputum Sample
- Requesting a Test on Nikshay
- Storing a sputum sample
- Modes of Transportation in SCT
- Specimen Carriers
- Labelling Specimen Transport Carriers
- Cool Chain Requirement for SCT
- Patient Turnaround Time from Identification to Treatment Initiation Relative to the Laboratory Technology Used in DR-TB
Course for Program Managers under NTEP
- PM-01: Basics of TB and NTEP
- PM: TB Laboratories and Diagnostic technologies in NTEP
- PM: TB Diagnosis and Case finding
- PM: TB Treatment
- PM: TB and comorbidity
- PM: Public Health Action
- PM: TB Prevention
- PM-M7_01: Direct Benefit Transfers in NTEP
- PM: Financial management and Planning
- PM: Procurement and Supply Chain Management
- PM: Partnerships, Corporate and Multisectoral engagement
- PM: ACSM and Community Engagement
- PM: Supervision, Monitoring and Evaluation
- PM: Training and capacity development
PM-M02_04: Quality Assurance of TB Detection Centre
- Storing slides at a DMC for QA
- False Positivity and False Negativity in Microscopy
- Measures for Quality Assurance in Microscopy
- Quality assurance of Stains and Internal Quality Control
- Panel Testing
- Onsite Evaluation [OSE]
- OSE Feedback and action required
- Random Blinded ReChecking [RBRC] Concept
- RBRC Process
- RBRC Process at DTC
- Random Blinded ReChecking [RBRC] Interpreting Feedback
PM-M02_02: TB Detection centres (Additional Reading)
- Qualities of a good sputum smear
- ZN Microscopy: Properties of a well stained slide
- Fluorescent Microscopy: Properties of a well stained slide
- Reporting and Recording results of Smear Microscopy (On paper)
- Reporting results of Microscopy
- Tuberculosis Laboratory Register
- Generating the DMC Laboratory Register from Nikshay
- Annual Maintenance [AMC] of a Microscope
- Consumables required at a Microscopy Centre
- Cartridge Based Nucleic Acid Amplification Test [CBNAAT]
- The CBNAAT Cartridge
- Consumables required at CBNAAT Lab
- CBNAAT Testing Process Overview
- CBNAAT Results Interpretation
- Recording and reporting the NAAT results
- Maintenance of CBNAAT Instrument under NTEP
- Disposal of Infectious Samples and Used Cartridges in CBNAAT Lab
- TrueNAT MTB and RIF Assay
- Consumables Required at a Truenat Lab
- Overview of the Truenat Testing Process
- Recording and reporting the NAAT results
- Biosafety measures required for Truenat
- Disposal of Infectious Samples and Used Cartridges in TrueNAT Laboratories