Estimated Costs of False Laboratory Diagnoses of Tuberculosis in Three Patients

We estimated direct medical and nonmedical costs associated with a false diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) caused by laboratory cross-contamination of Mycobacterium tuberculosis cultures in Massachusetts in 1998 and 1999. For three patients who received misdiagnoses of active TB disease on the basis of...

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Autores principales: Northrup, Jill M., Miller, Ann C., Nardell, Edward, Sharnprapai, Sharon, Etkind, Sue, Driscoll, Jeffrey, McGarry, Michael, Taber, Harry W., Elvin, Paul, Qualls, Noreen L., Braden, Christopher R.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2002
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2738552/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12453354
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid0811020387

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2738552/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12453354
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid0811020387

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