title: Tuberculosis among health care workers in a Brazilian tertiary hospital emergency unit.
abstract: The Brazilian emergency system is being reorganized as a hierarchy in the region of Ribeirão Preto, state of São Paulo. We found increased occupational risk for tuberculosis in this region tertiary reference center--a nurse technician (Incidence rate [IR] 526.3/100,000 inhabitants) had a risk of tuberculosis 12.6 (95% confidence interval [CI], 2.57-37.23) greater than the city population (41.8/100,000 inhabitants). The system reorganization will have to make the centers adequate to deal with this problem.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School of Ribeirão Preto, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil. apazin@fmrp.usp.br
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pazin-Filho
authors.forename: Clésio Sousa
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Soares
authors.forename: Aracele da Silva Nascimento
authors.initials: Ada S
authors.lastname: Ferrais
authors.forename: Paulo de Tarso
authors.initials: Pde T
authors.lastname: Oliveira e Castro
authors.forename: Fernando
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bellissimo-Rodrigues
authors.forename: Jordana de Almeida
authors.initials: Jde A
authors.lastname: Nogueira
authors.forename: Afonso Dinis Costa
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Passos
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016529:Emergency Nursing; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D017758:Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012307:Risk Factors; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000635:transmission*