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Estimated Costs of False Laboratory Diagnoses of Tuberculosis in Three Patients
- Source :
- Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 8, Iss 11, Pp 1264-1270 (2002)
- Publication Year :
- 2002
- Publisher :
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2002.
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Abstract
- We estimated direct medical and nonmedical costs associated with a false diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) caused by laboratory cross-contamination of Mycobacterium tuberculosis cultures in Massachusetts in 1998 and 1999. For three patients who received misdiagnoses of active TB disease on the basis of laboratory cross-contamination, the costs totaled U.S.$32,618. Of the total, 97% was attributed to the public sector (local and state health departments, public health hospital and laboratory, and county and state correctional facilities); 3% to the private sector (physicians, hospitals, and laboratories); and
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10806040 and 10806059
- Volume :
- 8
- Issue :
- 11
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.6fe1defc67ee425d9229a689ddffa08b
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3201/eid0811.020387