Journal article
A screening strategy for latent tuberculosis in healthcare workers: cost-effectiveness and budget impact of universal versus targeted screening
- Abstract:
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Objective: To evaluate the clinical, cost-efficiency, and budgetary implications of universal versus targeted latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) screening strategies among healthcare workers (HCWs) in an intermediate tuberculosis (TB)-burden country.
Design: Pragmatic cost-effectiveness and budget impact analysis using decision-analytic modeling.
Setting: A tertiary-care hospital in Singapore.
Methods:
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology Journal website
- Volume:
- 40
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 341-349
- Publication date:
- 2019-02-21
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-11-24
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1559-6834
- ISSN:
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0899-823X
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Pubs id:
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pubs:946344
- UUID:
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uuid:37766e02-17d1-431d-be4d-abfe319c1717
- Local pid:
- pubs:946344
- Source identifiers:
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946344
- Deposit date:
- 2018-11-26
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- Copyright holder:
- Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Rights statement:
- © 2019 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved.
- Notes:
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This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Cambridge University Press at: https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2018.334
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