Estimated Costs of False Laboratory Diagnoses of Tuberculosis in Three Patients

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...

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Main Authors: Jill M. Northrup, Ann C. Miller, Edward Nardell, Sharon Sharnprapai, Sue Etkind, Jeffrey Driscoll, Michael McGarry, Harry W. Taber, Paul Elvin, Noreen L. Qualls, Christopher R. Braden
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2002-11-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Costs and cost analysis
DNA fingerprinting
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
restriction fragment length polymorphism
tuberculosis
United States
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/8/11/02-0387_article

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