The cumulative risk of tuberculin skin test conversion for five years of hospital employment. | Zendy

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The cumulative risk of tuberculin skin test conversion for five years of hospital employment.

Author(s) -

Virginia K. Ktsanes,

Wynette Williams,

V V Boudreaux

Publication year - 1986

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.76.1.65

Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculin , cohort , proportional hazards model , demography , test (biology) , regression analysis , family medicine , tuberculosis , statistics , mathematics , paleontology , pathology , sociology , biology

We studied tuberculin skin test conversions in a cohort of 550 new employees followed for five years after assignment to adult inpatient services at Charity Hospital at New Orleans, Louisiana. There were 17 known conversions, an overall five-year cumulative probability of converting of 5.2 per cent. Proportional hazards regression analysis found that race and type of job (nursing vs other) were independent explanatory variables. To examine further the job effect, we compared the conversion curves for Blacks in nursing and Blacks in other jobs and found those in nursing to have higher rates.

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