Results and significance of a baseline tuberculin skin test programme among health care workers in a hospital setting;Risultati e significato della sorveglianza tubercolinica di base fra i lavoratori di un'azienda sanitaria ospedaliera esposti a rischio professionale

Medicina del Lavoro

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 221-231

  Gerbaudo, Laura ^a   Violante, B ^a  

^a S CROCE E CARLE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hospital employees; Latent tuberculosis infection; Tuberculin skin test

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HOSPITALS, SPECIAL; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; PREVALENCE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 34547838717     PISSN: 00257818     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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