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AAP Grand Rounds 11:42-43 (2004)
© 2004 American Academy of Pediatrics

SCHOOL HEALTH

School-Aged Children Are Not Being Adequately Screened for Tuberculosis

Source: Hsu K, Christiansen D, O’Connor D, et al. Self-assessment of tuberculosis infection risk by urban adolescents. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2003;157:1227–1231.[Abstract/Free Full Text]

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In the last decade, mass screening with tuberculin skin testing (TST) has been abandoned in favor of targeted screening based on primary care assessment of risk status. Prompted by 3 cases of tuberculosis (TB) in Boston public high schools, investigators from Boston University and the Boston Public Health Commission studied the relationship between adolescents’ self-reported tuberculin risk and their recall of having been assessed for TB risk or skin tested at the last primary care visit. Of the 969 students enrolled in the 3 participating Boston high . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Linda M. Grant, MD, MPH, FAAP
Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA