Detention until cure as a last resort: New York city's experience with involuntary in-hospital civil detention of persistently nonadherent tuberculosis patients

Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 493-501

  Feldman, Gabriel ^a   Srivastava, Prem ^b   Eden, Edward ^b,c   Frieden, Thomas R ^a,d  

^a NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

^b Goldwater Memorial Hospital   (United States)

^c ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Detention; New York City; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOSALICYLIC ACID; CAPREOMYCIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLOFAZIMINE; CYCLOSERINE; ETHAMBUTOL; ETHIONAMIDE; ISONIAZID; KANAMYCIN; OFLOXACIN; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFABUTIN; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DETENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL;

EID: 0031452285     PISSN: 10693424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-1009364     Document Type: Review

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