Medical-resource use for suspected tuberculosis in a New York City hospital.

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OBJECTIVE: To compare resource use by diagnostic outcome among hospital admissions during which tuberculosis (TB) was suspected. DESIGN: Retrospective study based on chart review and microbiology laboratory data. SETTING: The department of medicine in a municipal hospital serving central Brooklyn, New York. PARTICIPANTS: We identified all adult admissions in 1993 during which TB was suspected. We assigned each admission to one of four mutually exclusive groups defined by the results of microb...

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Authors: Griffiths, R; Hyman, C; McFarlane, S; Saurina, G; Anderson, J

• Journal: Infection control and hospital epidemiology : the official journal of the Society of Hospital Epidemiologists of America
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 10
• Pages: 747-753
• Publication date: 1998-10-01
• EISSN: 1559-6834
• ISSN: 0899-823X
• Language: English
• Keywords: False Positive Reactions; Health Resources; Patient Isolation; False Negative Reactions; Female; Hospital Costs; Hospitals, Municipal; Adult; Male; Retrospective Studies; Tuberculosis, Pulmonary; Medical Records; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; New York City; Length of Stay; Humans; Diagnosis, Differential