%0 Journal Article
%A Bozorgmehr, Kayvan
%A Preussler, Stella
%A Wagner, Ulrich
%A Joggerst, Brigitte
%A Szecsenyi, Joachim
%A Razum, Oliver
%A Stock, Christian
%T Using country of origin to inform targeted tuberculosis screening in asylum seekers: a modelling study of screening data in a German federal state, 2002-2015.
%J BMC infectious diseases
%V 19
%N 1
%@ 1471-2334
%C Heidelberg
%I Springer
%M DKFZ-2019-01089
%P 304
%D 2019
%X Screening programmes for tuberculosis (TB) among immigrants rarely consider the heterogeneity of risk related to migrants' country of origin. We assess the performance of a large screening programme in asylum seekers by analysing (i) the difference in yield and numbers needed to screen (NNS) by country and WHO-reported TB burden, (ii) the possible impact of screening thresholds on sensitivity, and (iii) the value of WHO-estimated TB burden to improve the prediction accuracy of screening yield.We combined individual data of 119,037 asylum seekers screened for TB in Germany (2002-2015) with TB estimates of the World Health Organization (WHO) (1990-2014) for their 81 countries of origin. Adjusted rate ratios (aRR) and 95
%F PUB:(DE-HGF)16
%9 Journal Article
%$ pmid:30943917
%2 pmc:PMC6448304
%R 10.1186/s12879-019-3902-x
%U https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/143505