Derivation and validation of a clinical prediction score for isolation of inpatients with suspected pulmonary tuberculosis

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 927-932

  Rakoczy, Kara S ^a   Cohen, Stuart H ^a   Nguyen, Hien H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPTOM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VALIDATION STUDY;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INPATIENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PATIENT ISOLATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 53549112146     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/590667     Document Type: Article

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