Volume 7, Number 2—April 2001
THEME ISSUE
4th Decennial International Conference on Nosocomial and Healthcare-Associated Infections
Prevention is Primary
Preventing Nosocomial Mycobacterium tuberculosis Transmission in International Settings
Seto Wing Hong
Table
Comparison of tuberculosis in hospital health-care workers (HCWs) and community, Hong Kong
| Year | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | |
| Hospitals (no.) | 3 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
| Staff (no.) | 9,063 | 9,063 | 10,844 | 17,983 | 19,555 | 21,228 | 21,434 | 21,863 |
| HCWs with TB (no.) | 8 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 9 | 8 | 18 | 11 |
| Incidence in HCWsa | 88 | 66 | 83 | 83 | 46 | 38 | 84 | 50 |
| Case reports of TB, Hong Kong | 6,283 | 6,292 | 6,537 | 6,319 | 6,212 | 6,501 | 7,072 | 7,673 |
| Incidence, Hong Konga,b | 109 | 112 | 110 | 104/90b | 101/91b | 103/87b | 109/94b | 115/89b |
aper 100,000.
bage-adjusted for HCWs.
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