Tuberculosis screening. Evaluation of a food handlers' program.
An evaluation of a tuberculosis screening program for food handlers revealed an unexpectedly low cost ($45) per identifiable candidate for preventive treatment (324 of 6,090 individuals screened). Four new active cases of tuberculosis were identified, and a risk/benefit analysis projected a potential reduction of 19.4 new active cases over the subsequent ten-year period.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001210:Asia, Southeastern / Q000208:ethnology; D044383:Black People; D003120:Colorado; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005511:Food Handling; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000191:economics; D008875:Middle Aged; D014374:Tuberculin Test / Q000295:instrumentation; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D001741:Black or African American