Burden of Active Tuberculosis in an Integrated Health Care System, 1997–2016: Incidence, Mortality, and Excess Health Care Utilization

Active tuberculosis (TB) is preventable. To quantify the potential value of prevention, we assessed active TB burden in a large health system from 1997 to 2016. Compared with a matched non-TB cohort, patients with active TB had higher mortality (8.4% vs 1.3%), mean number of hospitalizations (0.55 v...

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Autores principales: Wada, Paul Y, Lee-Rodriguez, Christian, Hung, Yun-Yi, Skarbinski, Jacek
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
Materias:
Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6984670/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32010737
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa015

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6984670/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32010737
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa015

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