Welcome to CDC stacks |
Stacks Logo
Advanced Search
Select up to three search categories and corresponding keywords using the fields to the right. Refer to the Help section for more detailed instructions.
 
 
Help
Clear All Simple Search
Advanced Search
Tracing patients exposed to health care workers with tuberculosis.
  • Published Date:
    1997 Mar-Apr
  • Source:
    Public Health Rep. 112(2):153-157
  • Language:
    English
Filetype[PDF-916.12 KB]


Details:
  • Alternative Title:
    Public Health Rep
  • Personal Author:
  • Description:
    Following an outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) among health care workers at a public hospital, the study was undertaken to (a) locate all exposed patients and administer tuberculin skin tests (TSTs) to them, (b) provide clinical treatment or prophylaxis to infected patients, and (c) ascertain the risk of M. tuberculosis transmission from health care workers to patients.|The authors identified all patients who had been hospitalized on floors where health care workers with symptomatic TB worked. The staff of the hospital's outpatient HIV/AIDS clinic notified and evaluated clinic patients who had been hospitalized on those floors. County health department personnel attempted to contact the remaining patients by letter and phone.|The authors identified 586 patients hospitalized during the health care worker outbreak, of whom 503 were potentially susceptible. Of these, 172 (34.2%) could be contacted, and 138 (80.2%) completed tuberculin skin testing or other follow-up evaluation. Of 134 who completed testing, 28 (20.9%) had reactive TSTs. In all, 362 patients (72%) were lost to follow-up, including many HIV-positive and homeless patients, who are at high risk of developing active TB once infected with M. tuberculosis.|The reemergence of TB as a public health threat and the emergence of other infectious diseases make it imperative to elicit accurate addresses and contact information from hospitalized patients and to develop better methods of contacting patients after hospital discharge.

  • Subject:
  • Pubmed ID:
    9071278
  • Pubmed Central ID:
    PMCnull
  • Document Type:
    Journal Article
  • Place as Subject:
    Georgia
  • Collection(s):
    Public Health Reports
  • Main Document Checksum:
  • Supporting Files:
    No Additional Files
    1. HIV and hepatitis B infection and risk behavior in young gay and bisexual men.
      Personal Author:
      Seage, G R; Mayer, K H; Lenderking, W R; Wold, C; Gross, M; Goldstein, R; Cai, B; Heeren, T; Hingson, R; Holmberg, S;
      Published Date:
      1997 Mar-Apr
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 112(2):158-167
      Description:
      To estimate the prevalence of and identify risk factors for human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections and unprotected anal intercourse among young homosexual and bisexual men.|The authors performed a cross-sec...
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 1.69 MB]
    2. Case characteristics and trends in pediatric tuberculosis, Maryland, 1986-1993.
      Personal Author:
      Chaulk, C P; Khoo, L; Matuszak, D L; Israel, E;
      Published Date:
      1997 Mar-Apr
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 112(2):146-152
      Description:
      To identify case characteristics and trends in the incidence of pediatric tuberculosis (TB) in Maryland during the national resurgence of the disease.|The authors conducted a retrospective review of the 248 cases of TB in children ages 19 and younger...
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 924.13 KB]
    3. Public Health Reports ; v. 112, no. 2 : table of contents
      Published Date:
      Mar-Apr 1997
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 112(2)
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 264.99 KB]
    4. Geographic concentration of violence between intimate partners.
      Personal Author:
      Miles-Doan, R; Kelly, S;
      Published Date:
      1997 Mar-Apr
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 112(2):135-141
      Description:
      To explore geographic patterns of violence between intimate partners in a metropolitan area with one of the highest injury mortality rates in the nation-Duval County, Florida, which includes the city of Jacksonville.|Using police reports of all serio...
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 2.07 MB]
    5. What Assures Good Outcomes in Medicaid-Financed Prenatal Care?
      Personal Author:
      Johnson, Kay A.
      Published Date:
      Mar 1997
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 112(2):133-134
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 568.62 KB]
    6. Public Health Reports ; v. 112, no. 2 : cover
      Published Date:
      Mar-Apr 1997
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 112(2)
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 890.90 KB]
    7. Images of Breast Cancer
      Personal Author:
      Brody, Julia Green; Rudel, Ruthann; Maxwell, Nancy Irwin; Swedis, Susan R.;
      Published Date:
      Mar 1997
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 112(2):89
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 149.58 KB]
    8. Monitoring health care in the United States--a challenging task.
      Personal Author:
      Pollock, A M; Rice, D P;
      Published Date:
      1997 Mar-Apr
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 112(2):108-113
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 2.19 MB]
    9. Outcomes of enhanced prenatal services for Medicaid-eligible women in public and private settings.
      Personal Author:
      Simpson, L; Korenbrot, C; Greene, J;
      Published Date:
      1997 Mar-Apr
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 112(2):122-134
      Description:
      With changes in Medicaid, more low-income women are receiving prenatal care in private practice settings. The authors sought to determine whether private settings can provide the enhanced prenatal support services for low-income women that have been ...
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 2.15 MB]
    10. Dental sealants. Who needs them?
      Personal Author:
      Siegal, M D; Farquhar, C L; Bouchard, J M;
      Published Date:
      1997 Mar-Apr
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 112(2):98-107
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 5.85 MB]
    11. The data standardization remedy in Kassebaum-Kennedy.
      Personal Author:
      Lee, P R; Scanlon, J;
      Published Date:
      1997 Mar-Apr
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 112(2):114-115
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 438.53 KB]
    12. Privies and the Public Health Service.
      Personal Author:
      Parascandola, John
      Published Date:
      1997 Mar-Apr
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 112(2):168-169
      Series:
      PHS Chronicles
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 1.46 MB]
    13. Designing Technologies
      Personal Author:
      Kleinman, Dushanka V.
      Published Date:
      Mar 1997
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 112(2):107
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 195.17 KB]
    14. Public Health Reports ; v. 112, no. 2 : masthead
      Published Date:
      Mar-Apr 1997
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 112(2)
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 1.22 MB]
    15. Edward Jenner's vaccine.
      Personal Author:
      Henderson, D A
      Published Date:
      1997 Mar-Apr
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 112(2):116-121
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 3.27 MB]
    16. Impact of the Mammography Quality Standards Act on access in Minnesota.
      Personal Author:
      Korn, J E; Casey-Paal, A; Lazovich, D; Ball, J; Slater, J S;
      Published Date:
      1997 Mar-Apr
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 112(2):142-145
      Description:
      The Minnesota Department of Health surveyed registered mammography facilities to assess their accreditation status prior to full implementation of the Federal Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA), which mandated accreditation of all mammography f...
      File Type:
      Filetype[PDF - 782.69 KB]
You May Also Like:
  1. Public Health Response to Tuberculosis Outbreak among Persons Experiencing Homelessness, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 2017–2018
    Personal Author:
    Tibbetts, Kelzee K.; Ottoson, Randy A.; Tsukayama, Dean T.;
    Published Date:
    Mar 2020
    Source:
    Emerg Infect Dis. 26(3):420-426
    Description:
    Tuberculosis (TB) is a greater risk for populations experiencing homelessness. When a TB exposure occurs in a homeless shelter, evaluation of contacts is both urgent and challenging. In 2017, local public health workers initiated a response to a TB o...
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 633.56 KB]
  2. Cluster of Ebola Virus Disease, Bong and Montserrado Counties, Liberia
    Personal Author:
    Nyenswah, Tolbert G.; Fallah, Mosaka; Calvert, Geoffrey M.; Duwor, Stanley; Hamilton, E. Dutch; Mokashi, Vishwesh; Arzoaquoi, Sampson; Dweh, Emmanuel; Burbach, Ryan; Dlouhy, Diane; Oeltmann, John E.; Moonan, Patrick K.;
    Published Date:
    Jul 2015
    Source:
    Emerg Infect Dis. 21(7):1253-1256
    Description:
    Lack of trust in government-supported services after the death of a health care worker with symptoms of Ebola resulted in ongoing Ebola transmission in 2 Liberia counties. Ebola transmission was facilitated by attempts to avoid cremation of the decea...
    File Type:
    Filetype[PDF - 688.91 KB]