Engineering controls and TB: what works? How well?

Health Facil Manage. 1994 Feb;7(2):18-24.

Abstract

OSHA's recent decision to enforce the CDC's TB-control guidelines is forcing facilities to implement engineering controls--despite a lack of hard data on what works best.

MeSH terms

  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.
  • Costs and Cost Analysis / statistics & numerical data
  • Guidelines as Topic / standards
  • Humans
  • Infection Control / economics
  • Infection Control / methods
  • Infection Control / standards*
  • Maintenance and Engineering, Hospital / economics
  • Maintenance and Engineering, Hospital / methods
  • Maintenance and Engineering, Hospital / standards*
  • Occupational Exposure / legislation & jurisprudence
  • Occupational Exposure / prevention & control
  • Tuberculosis / prevention & control*
  • United States
  • United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration