Latent Tuberculosis Screening Using Electronic Health Record Data

Screening for latent tuberculosis infection is recommended for foreign-born persons in the United States. We used proxy data from electronic health records to determine that 17.5% of foreign-born outpatients attending the UC San Diego Health clinic (San Diego, CA, USA) underwent screening. Ending th...

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Autores principales: Jenks, Jeffrey D., Garfein, Richard S., Zhu, Wenhong, Hogarth, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2020
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Research Letter
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7454063/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32818426
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2609.191391
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author Jenks, Jeffrey D.
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description Screening for latent tuberculosis infection is recommended for foreign-born persons in the United States. We used proxy data from electronic health records to determine that 17.5% of foreign-born outpatients attending the UC San Diego Health clinic (San Diego, CA, USA) underwent screening. Ending the global tuberculosis epidemic requires improved screening.
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spelling pubmed-74540632020-09-03 Latent Tuberculosis Screening Using Electronic Health Record Data Jenks, Jeffrey D. Garfein, Richard S. Zhu, Wenhong Hogarth, Michael Emerg Infect Dis Research Letter Screening for latent tuberculosis infection is recommended for foreign-born persons in the United States. We used proxy data from electronic health records to determine that 17.5% of foreign-born outpatients attending the UC San Diego Health clinic (San Diego, CA, USA) underwent screening. Ending the global tuberculosis epidemic requires improved screening. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2020-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7454063/ /pubmed/32818426 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2609.191391 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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title_short Latent Tuberculosis Screening Using Electronic Health Record Data
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7454063/
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