Costs of Implementing and Maintaining a Tuberculin Skin Test Program in Hospitals and Health Departments

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 814-820

  Lambert, Lauren ^a,h   Rajbhandary, Sameer ^a   Qualls, Noreen ^a   Budnick, Lawrence ^b   Catanzaro, Antonino ^c   Cook, Sharlette ^d   Daniels Cuevas, Linda ^e   Garber, Elizabeth ^f   Reves, Randall ^g  

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

^b RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

^e MULTNOMAH COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT   (United States)

^f Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^g DENVER PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS INFECTION; ECONOMICS; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MICROBIOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SKIN TEST; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; CROSS INFECTION; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0345601967     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502142     Document Type: Article

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