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A study to compare chest X-ray reports on overseas nursing recruits.
Power, S Sim, J Gallagher, J Greiner, B
Power, S
Sim, J
Gallagher, J
Greiner, B
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Date
2010-05
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Foreign Professional Personnel
Hospitals, Teaching
Humans
India
Infectious Disease Transmission, Professional-to-Patient
Ireland
Nurses
Philippines
Radiography, Thoracic
Sensitivity and Specificity
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary
Hospitals, Teaching
Humans
India
Infectious Disease Transmission, Professional-to-Patient
Ireland
Nurses
Philippines
Radiography, Thoracic
Sensitivity and Specificity
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary
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Abstract
This study was carried out to assess if there was a difference in the Chest X- ray (CXR) report on recruited nurses carried out overseas and later repeated in Ireland. This study was carried out in two Irish teaching hospitals. The subjects of this study comprised all overseas nurses recruited in each of the two hospitals within the defined period. The total number of subjects recruited from the 2 two centres was 84. Only nurses that had a repeat CXR were included in this study. 6/84 (7%) of the CXR that were initially reported as normal were subsequently reported as abnormal and were later diagnosed as Latent TB. 2/84(2%) of the CXR that were reported as abnormal were subsequently reported as normal. The data collected in this study has demonstrated that there was a significant difference in the CXR report from overseas and the CXR report in Ireland.
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en
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0332-3102
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20666084