7. Detection and prevention of tuberculosis in adults

The duties of a general practitioner include:

• control over the timely fluorographic examination of the lungs (LFF) in order to timely detect tuberculosis and other pathologies;
• fulfillment of the clinical minimum when examining patients for tuberculosis;
• full awareness of all patients with active tuberculosis living in the service area. This information is requested by the general practitioner at the anti-tuberculosis dispensary and entered into the outpatient card indicating the form of tuberculosis and the dispensary registration group;
• selection among the contingents of persons in whom the disease of tuberculosis occurs much more often than in the rest of the population (groups at risk of developing tuberculosis);
• monitoring chemoprophylaxis.