PMID: 30020532Jul 19, 2018Paper

Tuberculosis-related hospital use among recent immigrants to Canada

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Edward NgClaudia Sanmartin

Abstract

While the incidence of active tuberculosis (TB) in Canada is among the lowest in the world, the rates of TB among immigrants and Indigenous people remain high. In fact, the majority of new active TB cases are disproportionately found among immigrants. This study profiles TB-related acute care hospitalizations among new immigrants to Canada by selected characteristics. This study is based on the 2000-to-2013 Longitudinal Immigration Database (IMDB) linked to the Canadian Institute for Health Information's Discharge Abstract Database (DAD) from 2001/2002 to 2013/2014. It examines the timing of first TB-related acute care hospitalization occurring from the fiscal year 2001/2002 to the fiscal year 2013/2014 among immigrants who landed in Canada from 2000 to 2013 outside of Quebec and the territories. Mean and median hospital days and the percentage of total TB hospitalizations incurred by these new immigrants are calculated to measure the burden of hospital care among recent immigrants. From 2001/2002 to 2013/2014, 1,120 out of 2.7 million immigrants arriving between 2000 and 2013 were found to have, in total, 1,340 TB-related hospital discharges. The majority of cases (97%) were among immigrants from the Immigration, Refugees and ...Continue Reading

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