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Skin Testing for Tuberculosis in University Teaching Hospitals—Is There a Problem?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Barbara L. Mabon ,
Beth Ciardi ,
Kathi Nouri  and
Frederick L. Ruben
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Abstract

We performed four annual audits of tuberculin tests performed on hospitalized patients at a university teaching hospital complex. Each audit assessed if tests were performed and read correctly. House staff performed skin testing in years 1 to 3. Despite inter ventions of teaching and then of written instructions on skin testing, performance was poor. When testing was turned over in year 4 to trained infection control practitioners, performance approached 100%. We conclude that university teaching hospitals should assess skin-testing performance

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Concise Communications
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , April 1997 , pp. 247 - 249
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1997

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