Pre-entry screening programmes for tuberculosis in migrants to low-incidence countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1240-1249

  Aldridge, Robert W ^a   Yates, Tom A ^a   Zenner, Dominik ^a,b   White, Peter J ^b,c   Abubakar, Ibrahim ^a,b   Hayward, Andrew C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULIN;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MIGRANT; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRE ENTRY SCREENING PROGRAMME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SPUTUM CULTURE; SPUTUM SMEAR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULIN TEST; INCIDENCE; MASS SCREENING; META ANALYSIS; MIGRATION; PROCEDURES; TUBERCULOSIS;

HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MASS SCREENING; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84922717410     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(14)70966-1     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Pareek M, Baussano I, Abubakar I, Dye C, Lalvani A Evaluation of immigrant tuberculosis screening in industrialized countries. Emerg Infect Dis 2012, 18:1422-1429.
2. UK tuberculosis technical instructions. GOV.UK publications UK Visas and Immigration, Public Health EnglandPublic Health England, (accessed Sept 15, 2014). https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-tuberculosis-technical-instructions.
3. Assessing the burden of key infectious diseases affecting migrant populations in the EU/EEA 2014, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, (accessed Sept 15, 2014). http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/press/news/_layouts/forms/News_DispForm.aspx?List=8db7286c-fe2d-476c-9133-18ff4cb1b568&ID=1006.
4. Broekmans JF, Migliori GB, Rieder HL, et al. European framework for tuberculosis control and elimination in countries with a low incidence. Recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO), International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IUATLD) and Royal Netherlands Tuberculosis Association (KNCV) Working Group. Eur Respir J 2002, 19:765-775.
5. Tuberculosis surveillance and monitoring in Europe 2013 2013, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control/WHO Regional, Office for EuropeOffice for Europe, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm.
6. Agency HP Tuberculosis in the UK: 2013 report (accessed April 9, 2014). http://www.hpa.org.uk/webw/HPAweb&HPAwebStandard/HPAweb_C/1317139689732.
7. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Trends in tuberculosis-United States, 2012. 2013.
8. International migration flows to and from selected countries: the 2010 revision UN Population Division, Department of Economic and Social AffairsDepartment of Economic and Social Affairs, (accessed Aug 28, 2013). http://esa.un.org/MigFlows/Notes.html.
9. International migration report 2013 2013, UN Population Division, Department of Economic and Social AffairsDepartment of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, New York, (accessed April 9, 2014). http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/migration/migration-report-2013.shtml.
10. World migration report 2011: communicating effectively about migration 2011, International Organization for Migration, International Organization for Migration, Geneva, (accessed Sept 15, 2014). http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/WMR2011_English.pdf.
11. The world migration report 2013: migrant well-being and development 2013, International Organization for Migration, International Organization for Migration, Geneva, (accessed Sept 15, 2014). http://publications.iom.int/bookstore/free/WMR2013_EN.pdf.
12. Klinkenberg E, Manissero D, Semenza JC, Verver S Migrant tuberculosis screening in the EU/EEA: yield, coverage and limitations. Eur Respir J 2009, 34:1180-1189.
13. Alvarez GG, Gushulak B, Abu Rumman K, et al. A comparative examination of tuberculosis immigration medical screening programs from selected countries with high immigration and low tuberculosis incidence rates. BMC Infect Dis 2011, 11:3.
14. Alvarez GG, Clark M, Altpeter E, et al. Pediatric tuberculosis immigration screening in high-immigration, low-incidence countries. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2010, 14:1530-1537.
15. Zotero 2014, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, Virginia, USA, (accessed April 11, 2014). https://www.zotero.org/.
16. EPPI-reviewer 4 2014, Institute of Education, University of LondonUniversity of London, UKUK, University College London, London, (accessed April 11, 2014). http://eppi.ioe.ac.uk/cms/Default.aspx?alias=eppi.ioe.ac.uk/cms/er4.
17. Rieder HL, Zellweger JP, Raviglione MC, Keizer ST, Migliori GB Tuberculosis control in Europe and international migration. Eur Respir J 1994, 7:1545-1553.
18. Progressing towards TB elimination: a follow up to the Framework Action Plan to Fight Tuberculosis 2010, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, (accessed Sept 15, 2014). http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications/publications/101111_spr_progressing_towards_tb_elimination.pdf.
19. Moher D, Liberati A, Tetzlaff J, Altman DG Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA statement. BMJ 2009, 339:1896-1900. for the PRISMA Group.
20. Freeman MF, Tukey JW Transformations related to the angular and the square root. Ann Math Stat 1950, 21:607-611.
21. Barendregt JJ, Doi SA, Lee YY, Norman RE, Vos T Meta-analysis of prevalence. J Epidemiol Community Health 2013, 67:974-978.
22. Higgins JPT, Thompson SG Quantifying heterogeneity in a meta-analysis. Stat Med 2002, 21:1539-1558.
23. Global tuberculosis report 2012, WHO, World Health Organization, Geneva, (accessed Aug 28, 2013). http://www.who.int/tb/publications/global_report/en/.
24. Guyatt G, Oxman AD, Akl EA, et al. GRADE guidelines: 1. Introduction-GRADE evidence profiles and summary of findings tables. J Clin Epidemiol 2011, 64:383-394.
25. Bollini P, Pampallona S, O'Rourke T, et al. Outcome of second-line tuberculosis treatment in migrants from Vietnam: international organization for migration (IOM) tuberculosis working group. Trop Med Int Health 1998, 3:975-980.
26. Gorbacheva O, Mishra AK, Shapovalov D, Sudtasay S Prevalence of bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis in the Bhutanese refugees in Nepal. Results of active case finding. 14th International Congress on Infectious Diseases (ICID), 9-12 March, 2010, Miami, FL, USA (accessed May 1, 2014). http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&PAGE=reference&D=emed9&NEWS=N&AN=70125393.
27. Dasgupta K, Schwartzman K, Marchand R, Tennenbaum TN, Brassard P, Menzies D Comparison of cost-effectiveness of tuberculosis screening of close contacts and foreign-born populations. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2000, 162:2079-2086.
28. King K, Douglas PJ, Beath K Is premigration health screening for tuberculosis worthwhile?. Med J Aust 2011, 195:534-537.
29. Lange WR, Warnock-Eckhart E, Bean ME Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in foreign born adoptees. Pediatr Infect Dis J 1989, 8:625-629.
30. Liu Y, Weinberg MS, Ortega LS, Painter JA, Maloney SA Overseas screening for tuberculosis in U.S.-bound immigrants and refugees. N Engl J Med 2009, 360:2406-2415.
31. Malone JL, Paparello SF, Malone JD, et al. Drug susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from recent Haitian migrants: correlation with clinical response. Clin Infect Dis 1994, 19:938-940.
32. Maloney SA, Fielding KL, Laserson KF, et al. Assessing the performance of overseas tuberculosis screening programs: a study among US-bound immigrants in Vietnam. Arch Intern Med 2006, 166:234-240.
33. Mor Z, Leventhal A, Weiler-Ravell D, Peled N, Lerman Y Chest radiography validity in screening pulmonary tuberculosis in immigrants from a high-burden country. Respir Care 2012, 57:1137-1144.
34. Oeltmann JE, Varma JK, Ortega L, et al. Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis outbreak among US-bound Hmong refugees, Thailand, 2005. Emerg Infect Dis 2008, 14:1715-1721.
35. Painter JA, Graviss EA, Hai HH, et al. Tuberculosis screening by tuberculosis skin test or QuantiFERON-TB gold in-tube assay among an immigrant population with a high prevalence of tuberculosis and BCG vaccination. PLoS One 2013, 8:e82727.
36. Plant AJ, Watkins RE, Motus N, et al. Results of tuberculosis screening in applicants for migration in Vietnam and Cambodia. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2005, 9:157-163.
37. Wang JS, Allen EA, Enarson DA, Grzybowski S Tuberculosis in recent Asian immigrants to British Columbia, Canada: 1982-1985. Tubercle 1991, 72:277-283.
38. Watkins RE, Plant AJ, Sang D, et al. The association between subjective and clinical indicators of health in prospective Vietnamese migrants. Asia Pac J Public Health 2005, 17:46-50.
39. Yanni EA, Naoum M, Odeh N, Han P, Coleman M, Burke H The health profile and chronic diseases comorbidities of US-bound Iraqi refugees screened by the International Organization for Migration in Jordan: 2007-2009. J Immigr Minor Health 2013, 15:1-9.
40. Keane VP, O'Rourke TF, Bollini P, Pampallona S, Siem H Prevalence of tuberculosis in Vietnamese migrants: the experience of the Orderly Departure Program. Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health 1995, 26:642-647.
41. Health of resettled Iraqi refugees-San Diego County, California, October 2007-September 2009. [Erratum appears in MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2011; 60: 115]. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2010, 59:1614-1618. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
42. Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Hmong refugees resettling from Thailand into the United States, 2004-2005. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2005, 54:741-744. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
43. Graham S, Das GK, Hidvegi RJ, et al. Chest radiograph abnormalities associated with tuberculosis: reproducibility and yield of active cases. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2002, 6:137-142.
44. Mor Z, Lerman Y, Leventhal A Pre-immigration screening process and pulmonary tuberculosis among Ethiopian migrants in Israel. Eur Respir J 2008, 32:413-418.
45. Tuberculosis in Canada 2010, pre-release 2012, Public Health Agency of Canada, Public Health Agency of Canada, (accessed Oct 31, 2012). http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/tbpc-latb/pubs/tbcan10pre/index-eng.php.
46. Sandgren A, Hollo V, Huitric E, Kodmon C Epidemiology of tuberculosis in the EU/EEA in 2010: monitoring the progress towards tuberculosis elimination. Euro Surveill 2012, 17(12).
47. Tuberculosis notifications in Australia, 2008 and 2009 Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, (accessed Aug 31, 2012). http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/content/cda-cdi3601c.htm.
48. Schwartzman K, Oxlade O, Barr RG, et al. Domestic returns from investment in the control of tuberculosis in other countries. N Engl J Med 2005, 353:1008-1020.
49. Bloom BR, Salomon JA Enlightened self-interest and the control of tuberculosis. N Engl J Med 2005, 353:1057-1059.