Delineating a retesting zone using receiver operating characteristic analysis on serial quantiFERON tuberculosis test results in US healthcare workers

Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Thanassi, Wendy ^a,b,c   Noda, Art ^b,c   Hernandez, Beatriz ^b,c   Newell, Jeffery ^b   Terpeluk, Paul ^d   Marder, David ^e   Yesavage, Jerome A ^b,c  

^a VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; TUBERCULOSIS ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONSULTATION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; KAPPA STATISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84876510639     PISSN: 20901836     EISSN: 20901844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/291294     Document Type: Article

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