Annual Tuberculin Skin Testing of Employees at a University Hospital: A Cost-Benefit Analysis
- 1 October 1989
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
- Vol. 10 (10) , 465-469
- https://doi.org/10.2307/30146836
Abstract
The usefulness of routine annual tuberculin skin testing (purified protein derivative [PPD]) of hospital employees has been questioned. Between 1984 and the end...This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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