Using country of origin to inform targeted tuberculosis screening in asylum seekers: a modelling study of screening data in a German federal state, 2002-2015
Screening programmes for tuberculosis (TB) among immigrants rarely consider the heterogeneity of risk related to migrants’ country of origin. We assess the performance of a large screening programme in asylum seekers by analysing (i) the difference in yield and numbers needed to screen (NNS) by coun...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Article (Journal) |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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3 April 2019
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BMC infectious diseases
Year: 2019, Jahrgang: 19 |
| ISSN: | 1471-2334 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s12879-019-3902-x |
| Online-Zugang: | Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-3902-x
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| Verfasserangaben: | Kayvan Bozorgmehr, Stella Preussler, Ulrich Wagner, Brigitte Joggerst, Joachim Szecsenyi, Oliver Razum and Christian Stock |
| Zusammenfassung: | Screening programmes for tuberculosis (TB) among immigrants rarely consider the heterogeneity of risk related to migrants’ country of origin. We assess the performance of a large screening programme in asylum seekers by analysing (i) the difference in yield and numbers needed to screen (NNS) by country and WHO-reported TB burden, (ii) the possible impact of screening thresholds on sensitivity, and (iii) the value of WHO-estimated TB burden to improve the prediction accuracy of screening yield. |
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| Beschreibung: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1471-2334 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s12879-019-3902-x |