Infection control and tuberculosis among health care workers in Viet Nam, 2009-2013: a cross-sectional survey

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Table 3 Notification rate of all types of tuberculosis per 100,000 health care worker-years, 2009 – 2013^a

Type of facility	Number of facilities^b	Number of HCW-years	Number of TB cases^b	Tuberculosis notifications, all types, per 100,000 HCW-years
Type of facility	Number of facilities^b	Number of HCW-years	Number of TB cases^b	Rate	(95 % CI)^c
Type of facility
Referral hospitals for TB & lung diseases	4	8,257	40	484	(346 - 660)
Provincial hospitals & centers for TB & lung diseases	42	18,388	60	326	(249 - 420)
Provincial preventive centers^d	20	3,153	10	317	(152 - 583)
Region
North	32	17,626	63	357	(275 - 457)
Central	12	3,068	3	98	(20 - 286)
South	22	9,157	44	481	(349 - 645)

^aAbbreviations used in this Table: TB tuberculosis, HCW health care worker, CI confidence interval. ^bOne provincial TB hospital in Central Vietnam was excluded since one TB case was reported for 2012 without providing the number of health care workers in that year, so that notification rate cannot be calculated. ^c95 % binomial exact confidence intervals are displayed. ^dThese include centers for social disease prevention (n = 18) and medical preventive centers (n = 2)

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