title: [Situation analysis of the monitoring of tuberculosis infection among hospital staff].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate monitoring of new tuberculosis infection among staff in hospitals running the model-beds for tuberculosis patient care.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Questionnaires were sent to the hospitals and the responses were analyzed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Valid answer sheets were recovered in 51% (38/75). Forty percent of hospitals performed periodic monitoring of new tuberculosis infection among staff. Fifty percent performed only one test for tuberculosis infection on employment but did no perform further periodic tests. Ten percent did not perform specific tests for tuberculosis infection at all. There were very few persons who were prescribed preventive therapy based on test results for tuberculosis infection.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Less than half of the hospitals performed periodic monitoring of new tuberculosis infection, but there were few tuberculosis cases among hospital staff. It is necessary to investigate further the efficacy and necessity of periodic monitoring of new tuberculosis infection among hospital staff.
authors.affiliation: Research Institute of Tuberculosis, Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association, Tokyo, Japan. ito@jata.or.jp
authors.forename: Kunihiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ito
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000379:methods*; D017758:Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital; D016273:Occupational Exposure; D012698:Serologic Tests; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014374:Tuberculin Test; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000517:prevention & control*