Latent Tuberculosis Screening Using Electronic Health Record Data
Jeffrey D. Jenks, Richard S. Garfein, Wen-Hong Zhu, Michael Hogarth
Emerging infectious diseases · 2020-07
Abstract
Screening for latent tuberculosis infection is recommended for foreign-born persons in the United States. We used proxy data from electronic health records to determine that 17.5% of foreign-born outpatients attending the UC San Diego Health clinic (San Diego, CA, USA) underwent screening. Ending the global tuberculosis epidemic requires improved screening.
MeSH terms
- Tuberculosis
- Latent tuberculosis
- Health records
- Proxy (statistics)
- Medicine
- Electronic health record
- Foreign born
- Family medicine
- Pediatrics
- Environmental health