How to Evaluate a Positive Tuberculin Skin Test in the Workplace

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• Personal Author:
  D'Souza D ; Green-McKenzie J
• Description:
  Occupational medicine physicians can play a role in helping to contribute to the Institute of Medicine's call to eliminate TB in the United States by considering active TB in workers who have suggestive symptoms or latent TB in workers in high-risk categories. Although healthcare environments, correctional facilities, homeless shelters, long-term care facilities for the elderly, and drug treatment shelters are traditionally considered as high-risk occupational groups for TB, many other workplaces are potentially at risk. In having a high index of suspicion and being able to identify, treat, and refer TB cases as needed, occupational medicine physicians can help to reduce transmission of the disease with the attendant disruption to the workflow, lost workdays, and reduced productivity, and help to decrease the burden of TB in the workplace. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Communicable Diseases Diagnosis Health Personnel Occupational Health Safety Tuberculosis
• Keywords:
  Clinical Tests Diagnostic Tests Health Care Workers Infectious Diseases Medical Personnel TB
• ISSN:
  1076-2752
• Publisher:
  Schwerha JJ
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  New York ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  47
• Issue:
  11
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20053521
• Citation:
  J Occup Environ Med 2005 Nov; 47(11):1200-1203
• Contact Point Address:
  Judith Green-McKenzie, MD, MPH, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Occupational Medicine, Ground Floor Silverstein, Philadelphia, PA 19104-4283
• Email:
  jmckenzi@mail.med.upenn.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2006
• Performing Organization:
  University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
• End Date:
  20290630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/216257/cdc_216257_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 108.64 KB ]