Introduction: tuberculosis is still one of the most serious health problems in many countries and one important aspect is the effective screening of respiratory symptomatic TB suspects.
Objectives: to evaluate the feasibility in the administration of rapid epidemiological surveys for some aspects of sputum smears collection and quality in respiratory symptomatic TB suspects.
Methods: a previously expert-validated questionnaire was administered to people with respiratory symptoms from January to February 2006 in ten municipalities of Ciudad de la Habana province. For the selection of the respiratory symptomatic suspects, a three-phase cluster sampling was performed.
Results: the survey was well accepted by the study population which provided the requested data. Cough persisted for 15,3 days; 87,1% of sputum smears were taken early in the morning and 80% of the studied people considered it as good.
Conclusions: these findings are acceptable and important for TB surveillance and control in this province and show the usefulness of these surveys.
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