[Factors influencing the effectiveness of the work of an antituberculosis ambulatory care clinic].

Criteria for the assessment of activity of an antituberculosis dispensary, a local phthisiatrist and a general therapeutic network have been suggested proceeding from the results of a correlative analysis of some parameters of antituberculosis dispensary activity and the efficiency of prophylactic population screening with respect to tuberculosis. It questions why the contingent of patients with active tuberculosis is needlessly large in number due to overstaying of clinically healed patients in the groups under active observation.