title: Tuberculosis care: an evaluability study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To verify whether the tuberculosis control program (TCP) is evaluable and to examine the feasibility of building an evaluation model in apriority municipality for the control of tuberculosis.
  
  
  METHODS
  This evaluability study was conducted in a municipality in northeastern Brazil. For data collection, documental analysis and interviews with key informants were performed. For indicator validation, the nominal group technique was adopted.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The details of TCP were described, and both the logical model and the classification framework for indicators were developed and agreed up on, with the goal of characterizing the structural elements of the program, defining the structure and process indicators, and formulating the evaluation questions.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  TCP is evaluable. Based on logical operational analysis, it was possible to evaluate the adequacy of the program goals for the control of tuberculosis. Therefore, the performance of a summative evaluation is recommended, with a focus on the analysis of the effects of tuberculosis control interventions on decreasing morbidity and mortality.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem, Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, Campina Grande, PB, Brazil.
authors.forename: Ardigleusa Alves
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Coelho
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem, Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, Campina Grande, PB, Brazil.
authors.forename: Cláudia Santos
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Martiniano
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN, Brazil.
authors.forename: Ewerton Willian Gomes
authors.initials: EW
authors.lastname: Brito
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN, Brazil.
authors.forename: Oswaldo Gomes Corrêa
authors.initials: OG
authors.lastname: Negrão
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Ricardo Alexandre
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Arcêncio
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN, Brazil.
authors.forename: Severina Alice da Costa
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Uchôa
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D006801:Humans; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000517:prevention & control*