Tuberculin skin testing of hospital employees: Big workload with little impact;Tuberkulin-testung bei spitalangestellten: Grosser aufwand mit geringem nutzen

Schweizerische Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 129, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 217-224

  Schoch, O D ^a,b   Graf Deuel, E ^a   Knoblauch, A ^a  

^a CANTONAL HOSPITAL ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chemoprevention; Cost benefit analysis; Hospitals; Infection control; Program evaluation; Tuberculin test; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; TUBERCULIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SPUTUM SMEAR; SWITZERLAND; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SWITZERLAND; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 0033550759     PISSN: 00367672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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