Screening immigrants to Canada for tuberculosis: Chest radiography or tuberculin skin testing?

CMAJ. Canadian Medical Association Journal

Volumn 169, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1035-1036

  Menzies, Dick ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; ISONIAZID;

CANADA; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMIGRANT; INCIDENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MASS SCREENING; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NOTE; POPULATION RESEARCH; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULIN TEST;

EID: 0345377706     PISSN: 08203946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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