| So what does the data show? |
- A study in a urban Emergency Department showed that in one year 12% of the emergency department staff converted on their PPD skin test
- Study was from 1994-1995
- Conversion rate through out the hospital was 2%
- Of the 12%, all where registered nurses working in the emergency department
- In 1996, after instituting TB isolation and infection control, there were no PPD conversions in the ER. [12]
- Infection control works!
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