ATTITUDES TOWARDS LATENT TUBERCULOSIS AMONG PHYSICIANS IN TRAINING: THE ROLE OF BCG VACCINATION

摘要

IntroductionPrior work has demonstrated that international medical graduates (IMG) physicians are less likely to recommend treatment of LTBI for themselves or their patients. Our objective was to measure differences in LTBI treatment attitudes among resident physicians when diagnosis is established with a positive TST, as compared with a positive IGRA, and to determine whether a resident physician’s personal history of BCG vaccination was associated with these attitudes.