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Rethinking TB screening: politics, practicalities and the press.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | David St. John Thomas Jarvis, Miles Williams, Alan |
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Abstract | In support of the urgent need for improvements to new entrant TB screening,1 which must encourage the diagnosis of both active and latent forms of TB, we would like to offer two audits of new entrant screening from an area with a low TB incidence (4.3/100 000).2 In 2006, we audited 29 new entrant referrals, all of whom had a chest x-ray reported by the Port Health Control Unit at Heathrow Airport as ‘abnormal’ (predominantly hilar calcification).3 Of the 29 referrals, … |
| Starting Page | 27 |
| Ending Page | 41 |
| Page Count | 15 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1136/thx.2010.152868 |
| PubMed reference number | 21325665 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 66 |
| Issue Number | 11 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://thorax.bmj.com/content/thoraxjnl/early/2011/02/16/thx.2010.152868.full.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://thorax.bmj.com/content/early/2011/02/16/thx.2010.152868.full.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1136/thx.2010.152868 |
| Journal | Thorax |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |