Tuberculosis among health care workers in a Brazilian tertiary hospital emergency unit.
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.
Pazin-Filho
Antonio
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Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School of Ribeirão Preto, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil. apazin@fmrp.usp.br
Soares
Clésio Sousa
CS
Ferrais
Aracele da Silva Nascimento
Ada S
Oliveira e Castro
Paulo de Tarso
Pde T
Bellissimo-Rodrigues
Fernando
F
Nogueira
Jordana de Almeida
Jde A
Passos
Afonso Dinis Costa
AD
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*