Prevalence of and factors related to latent tuberculous infection among all employees in a referral hospital
- Authors
- Kim, S.; Choi, H.; Jang, Y. J.; Park, S. H.; Lee, H.
- Issue Date
- Nov-2018
- Publisher
- INT UNION AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS LUNG DISEASE (I U A T L D)
- Keywords
- LTBI; QuantiFERON-TB Gold; health care workers
- Citation
- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE, v.22, no.11, pp.1329 - 1335
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- SCIE
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- Journal Title
- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE
- Volume
- 22
- Number
- 11
- Start Page
- 1329
- End Page
- 1335
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hanyang/handle/2021.sw.hanyang/2659
- DOI
- 10.5588/ijtld.18.0047
- ISSN
- 1027-3719
- Abstract
- SETTING: Referral hospital, South Korea.
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the prevalence of and factors related to latent tuberculous infection (LTBI) among all hospital employees.
DESIGN: A cross-sectional study of 479 health care workers (HCWs) undergoing LTBI screening.
RESULTS: Overall prevalence of LTBI was 15.7%, 43.1% of whom initiated and completed LTBI treatment. Compared with HCWs without LTBI, those with LTBI were more likely to be older (P < 0.001), male (P = 0.003), work in low-risk departments (P = 0.013) and have more years of employment (P < 0.001). LTBI prevalence was highest in physicians (27.8%), followed by HCWs without patient contact (23.4%), nurses (8.3%) and other HCWs in contact with patients (6.9%). In multivariate analysis, compared with HCWs aged <20 years, those aged 40 years were 4.08 times more likely to have LTBI (P = 0.007). In addition, compared with HCWs working for <1 year, those working for 1–5 years or for 5 years were respectively 7.55 (P = 0.014) and 13.69 (P = 0.001) times more likely to have LTBI.
CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that modified LTBI screening strategies, including HCWs with no patient contact and encouraging LTBI treatment participation, might be helpful in improving LTBI control in HCWs.
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