Screening for tuberculosis: Elaboration of a computer program for interpretation of Mantoux reaction among the personnel of the Geneva University Hospital;Depistage de la tuberculose: Elaboration d'un programme informatique d'interpretation de la reaction de Mantoux parmi le personnel des Hopitaux Universitaires de Geneve (HUG)

Revue Medicale de la Suisse Romande

Volumn 119, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 579-585

  Scherrer, Yvan ^a   Schira, Jean Claude ^b   Massonet, Gilles ^b  

^a Institut Universitaire de Santé au Travail   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASE; SHORT SURVEY; TUBERCULIN TEST; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DECISION TREE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SWITZERLAND; TUBERCULOSIS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ALGORITHMS; DECISION TREES; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SWITZERLAND; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0032818250     PISSN: 00353655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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