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A screening strategy for latent tuberculosis in healthcare workers: cost-effectiveness and budget impact of universal versus targeted screening

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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.

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Publication status:
Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1017/ice.2018.334

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
NDORMS
Role:
Author
ORCID:
0000-0001-5876-9363
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:
1559-6834
ISSN:
0899-823X
Language:
English
Pubs id:
pubs:946344
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uuid:37766e02-17d1-431d-be4d-abfe319c1717
Local pid:
pubs:946344
Source identifiers:
946344
Deposit date:
2018-11-26

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