Case management is an effective intervention for use in tuberculosis (TB) control to
ensure that patients complete an appropriate and effective course of anti-TB treatment in
the shortest time possible. Case management is a collaborative model of healthcare
delivery that assesses, provides, monitors, manages, and coordinates the healthcare
services over an entire episode of illness,disease, or need. Definitions of case
management suggest a range of activities from meeting the patient’s medical and
psychosocial needs through appropriate use of resources, to assurance of
independence, and to direction of activities toward serious conditions likely to require
numerous providers and involve costly care.