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The “DOTS Expansion” Working Group (DEWG) is an inter-institutional arrangement between World Health Organization and many Stop TB Partnership partners involved in the issue of expanding the coverage of DOTS, the WHO recommended strategy for tuberculosis control.

The electronic TB recording and reporting forms - e-R&R

Click the link below to visit the WHO TB e-R&R portal, a site dedicated to sharing knowledge about electronic recording and reporting (e-R&R). We invite you to view a catalogue of e-R&R software currently in use in several countries. A technical analysis for those interested in implementing an electronic system is in preparation.

What is e-R&R? Computerized implementations of TB Recording and Reporting registers and quarterly reports. In other words, entering data into some kind of computer which generates various analyses or reports.

WHO TB e-R&R portal

The revised TB recording and reporting forms - version 2006

Click the link below to visit the revised forms and register (French and English)
The Stop TB Department (STB) of the World Health Organization (WHO), in collaboration with technical partners, revised the TB recording and reporting (R&R) system to align the forms and registers to the new Stop TB Strategy. The revision facilitates the monitoring of the 6 components of the Stop TB Strategy, which itself was developed to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals.

The revised forms and registers are presented in three complementary parts for country adaptation:

• Part I. Essential TB data
• Part II. Essential TB data in settings using routine culture
• Part III. Additional TB data, primarily to be used with electronic TB recording and reporting (e-R&R)

Annexes present the existing WHO-recommended TB forms and registers that were used as the basis for changes.

The document on revised forms and registers is not a guideline. Instead, it focuses on the changes made to the current set of TB recording forms and registers. For convenience, additional or modified data are circled in blue in each set of forms (part I, II, III); removed data are circled in a red dashed line (annexes page 56-71).

Revised TB recording and reporting forms