PMID: 8596233Apr 3, 1996Paper

Acceptance of isoniazid preventive therapy by health care workers after tuberculin skin test conversion

JAMA : the Journal of the American Medical Association
B C CaminsH M Blumberg

Abstract

To examine health care workers' (HCWs') acceptance of and adherence to isoniazid preventive therapy in the setting of a comprehensive tuberculin skin-testing program. Descriptive case series. University-affiliated inner-city public hospital in Atlanta, Ga. A total of 125 HCWs (91 hospital employees and 34 house staff or medical students [the physician group]) who had a positive tuberculin skin test between July 1992 and January 1994 and were offered isoniazid preventive therapy. Health care workers with a recent tuberculin skin test conversion were required to have a chest x-ray performed and see a physician and were encouraged but not required to undergo preventive therapy. Acceptance and initiation of preventive therapy with isoniazid by HCWs, completion of at least 6 months of preventive therapy, and differences between the employee and physician groups. All 125 HCWs with a recent positive tuberculin skin test had a chest radiograph performed, 123 (98.4%) saw a physician, and 105 (84%) initiated preventive therapy. Sixty-nine (66%) of the 105off HCWs who initiated preventive therapy (55% of the 125 total) completed at least 6 months of isoniazid therapy. More of the physician group than of the employee group completed preven...Continue Reading

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