Organization of an interdisciplinary service in the anti-tuberculosis dispensary - an effective strategy for the prevention of comorbid diseases with TB

Abstract

Chronic diseases comorbid with tuberculosis mutually complicate each other, leading to a longer course of tuberculosis, limiting the use of necessary anti-tuberculosis treatments. The procedure for providing TB care to the population does not provide for an examination for somatic pathology. The creation of an interdisciplinary service, which included therapeutic specialists, increased the effectiveness of the treatment of both tuberculosis and comorbid pathologies with it.