title: [Duties of institutions and heads of health care centers in the area of infection control, information, assessment, registration and financing of benefits provided to TB patients].
abstract: The Act on preventing and counteracting infections and infectious diseases in humans effective in Poland provides for the duty of the heads of health care outlets and institutions to counteract spreading of TB in units under their management. They are, by all means, responsible for monitoring infections in their respective units, involving development, implementation and monitoring of practical implementation of procedures aiming at limiting dissemination of TB in hospitals and outpatient clinics. Medical service unit managers are also responsible for providing members of their staffs with means of individual protection against infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacillus. Their duties also include notification of all recognized TB cases in their respective units. TB is an infectious diseases included in the occupational disease list. Assessment of TB as occupational disease is the responsibility of provincial TB prevention clinics. The Act also provides for principles of financing of individual benefits available for the insured TB patients and those not insured.
authors.affiliation: Katedra i Zakład Medycyny Rodzinnej, Warszawski Uniwersytet Medyczny. tmzielonka@wp.pl
authors.forename: Tadeusz M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Zielonka
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D018563:Disease Notification; D005376:Financial Management / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011044:Poland; D012941:Social Responsibility; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000517:prevention & control*