TY  - JOUR
AU  - Bozorgmehr, Kayvan
AU  - Preussler, Stella
AU  - Wagner, Ulrich
AU  - Joggerst, Brigitte
AU  - Szecsenyi, Joachim
AU  - Razum, Oliver
AU  - Stock, Christian
TI  - 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.
JO  - BMC infectious diseases
VL  - 19
IS  - 1
SN  - 1471-2334
CY  - Heidelberg
PB  - Springer
M1  - DKFZ-2019-01089
SP  - 304
PY  - 2019
AB  - 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
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:30943917
C2  - pmc:PMC6448304
DO  - DOI:10.1186/s12879-019-3902-x
UR  - https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/143505
ER  -