Fig 1.
TB Prevention and Care Program of Alberta: The organization of TB services in the Province of Alberta, Canada.
TB services are delivered out of three public health clinics, two outpatient (the Calgary and Edmonton TB Clinics) and one virtual. The virtual clinic also maintains the TB Registry and oversees provincial program activities. Abbreviations: PHO Provincial Health Office; AH Alberta Health; AHS Alberta Health Services; PHAC Public Health Agency of Canada; CIC Citizenship and Immigration Canada; FNIHB First Nations and Inuit Health Branch; AB Alberta.
Fig 2.
The age- and sex-adjusted incidence of tuberculosis in Alberta, 1989–2013: The age- and sex-adjusted incidence of TB in Alberta over the 25 years 1989–2013 was estimated in three population groups: Registered or Status Indians (SI), the foreign-born (FB) and Canadian-born ‘Others’ (CBO).
The population estimates used in the analysis were derived from Canadian censuses conducted in 1986, 1991, 1996, 2001, and 2006. [5] After 2006 the long form of the Canadian census, which had previously estimated the foreign-born population by age and sex, was discontinued. However, it was noted that in 2001 and 2006 the proportion of the population, other than Status Indians, that was foreign-born by 5-year age and sex grouping, was relatively constant. Accordingly, the foreign-born population in 2011 was calculated on the basis of the proportions in 2006. Inter-censal estimates were estimated using linear interpolations between censuses; estimates from 2012 and 2013 were obtained by linear extrapolation. Adjustment of rates was carried out using the direct method with the total Alberta population as the reference population. The three-clinic model began in 1999; see red arrow.
Table 1.
Tuberculosis Case Characteristics by Clinic Site of Care, Alberta, 2008–2012.
Table 2.
Tuberculosis Case Management Indicators by Clinic Site of Care, Alberta, 2008–2012.
Table 3.
Tuberculosis Treatment Outcome Indicators by Clinic Site of Care, Alberta, 2008–2012.
Table 4.
Tuberculosis Contact Management indicators by Clinic Site of Care, Alberta, 2008–2012 (Random draw 1).
Table 5.
Tuberculosis Contact Management indicators by Clinic Site of Care, Alberta, 2008–2012. (Random draw 2).
Table 6.
Virtual Clinic Tuberculosis Case Management Indicators by Place of Residence, On-Reserve versus Off-Reserve of Case-Patients, Alberta, 2008–2012.
Table 7.
Virtual Clinic Tuberculosis Treatment Outcome Indicators by Place of Residence, On-Reserve versus Off-Reserve of Case-Patients, Alberta, 2008–2012.
Table 8.
Virtual Clinic Tuberculosis Contact Management indicators by place of residence—on versus off reserve—Alberta, 2008–2012 (Random draw 1).
Table 9.
Virtual Clinic Tuberculosis Contact Management indicators by place of residence—on versus off reserve—Alberta, 2008–2012 (Random draw 2).