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Estimated Costs of False Laboratory Diagnoses of Tuberculosis in Three Patients
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.10,873 (range, 21,306). Reducing laboratory cross-contamination and quickly identifying patients with cross-contaminated cultures can prevent unnecessary and potentially dangerous treatment regimens and anguish for the patient and financial burden to the health-care system
Preventive behaviors used by adults as precautions taken to avoid catching influenza or spreading influenza.
<p>Preventive behaviors used by adults as precautions taken to avoid catching influenza or spreading influenza.</p
Unadjusted preventive behaviors used by adults to avoid catching or spreading influenza by sociodemographic characteristics.
<p>Unadjusted preventive behaviors used by adults to avoid catching or spreading influenza by sociodemographic characteristics.</p
Sociodemographic characteristics among adults aged ≥18 years–United States, National Internet Flu Survey 2015.
<p>Sociodemographic characteristics among adults aged ≥18 years–United States, National Internet Flu Survey 2015.</p
Adjusted estimates of preventive behavior responses used by adults to avoid catching or spreading influenza.
<p>Adjusted estimates of preventive behavior responses used by adults to avoid catching or spreading influenza.</p