Geographic analysis of latent tuberculosis screening: A health system approach.

John P BonnewellLaura FarrowKristen V DicksGary M CoxJason E Stout

Published in: PloS one (2020)

The weak correlation between patient proportion screened for LTBI and our surrogate marker of population tuberculosis risk suggests that LTBI screening efforts should be better targeted. This type of geography-based analysis may serve as an easily obtainable benchmark for LTBI screening in health systems with low tuberculosis prevalence.

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