Delays in Isolating Patients Admitted to Hospital with Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Korea.
Dae Hyuk HeoJun Won SeoJeong-Han KimJune Young ChunKang Il JunChang Kyung KangSong Mi MoonKyoung-Ho SongPyeong Gyun ChoePyoeng Gyun ChoeJi Hwan BangEu-Suk KimWan Beom ParkNam Joong KimMyoung-don OhHong Bin KimPublished in: Journal of Korean medical science (2019)
Concerning patients subsequently diagnosed with active PTB, > 50% were not isolated on admission day. We suggest that the patients with clinically suspected PTB including the elderly who have a past history of TB, night sweats, or apical infiltration on chest radiographs, be presumptively isolated on admission, without waiting for microbiological confirmation of the diagnosis.