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Utility of the Hospital Tuberculosis Registry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Charles S. Bryan  and
Eric R. Brenner
Charles S. Bryan*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, South Carolina
Eric R. Brenner
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, South Carolina
*
2 Richland Medical Park, Suite 502, Columbia, SC 29203
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Abstract

Emerging guidelines suggest that the management of tuberculosis and suspected tuberculosis in the hospital will become an increasingly costly enterprise. The local hospital registry can be a focal point for determining the extent to which such measures are necessary at individual institutions, that existing infection control recommendations are being carried out, and that patients released from the hospital are not lost to follow-up. Consideration might be given to inclusion of all patients begun on antituberculous therapy, regardless of the results of acid-fast bacilli cultures, in view of renewed concern about patient compliance.

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Readers' Forum
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 15 , Issue 8 , August 1994 , pp. 536 - 539
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1994

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