Health care practitioner€s TB screening practice preferencesIvan CarbonellDenice CurtisJeffrey L AlexerRebecca L Brocato BarquistiMedPub
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) screening of healthcare workers (HCWs) is an important component of hospital infection control programs. Many institutions have replaced tuberculin skin tests (TSTs) with interferon-release gamma assays (IGRAs). Challenges of IGRA tests include daily fluctuations of IGRA...
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To describe the burden of TB in healthcare workers (HCWs) in the UK and determine whether HCWs are at increased risk of TB due to occupational exposure.Retrospective cohort analysis of national UK TB surveillance and genotyping data between 2009 and 2013. The rate of TB in HCWs compared with...
Routine screening of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is recommended as an essential component in the prevention of TB transmission in healthcare facilities. Objective To determine the prevalence of LTBI among healthcare workers (HCWs) in a community hospital. Methods A descriptive study was carrie...
Some people hid and did not want to take part in the [COPD] screening process because of fear of stigmatization from other Community Members who assume that when one coughs (…) [they] are tuberculosis patients. COPD is not a condition they think of (…). -Health...
Healthcare-seeking behaviours for TB-suspicious symptoms Around 90% of each occupational group used self-medication when developing TB-suspicious symptoms. No more than 5% of any group visited a government hospital despite 77% having a foreign worker health card (in addition to a labour card) and...
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Polio vaccineA health care worker giving a polio vaccine to a child in Katsina state, Nigeria, 2014. Written by John H. Bryant Professor and Chairman, Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan. Author ofHealth and the Developing World. ...