Table 3.
Notification rate of all types of tuberculosis per 100,000 health care worker-years, 2009 – 2013a
| Type of facility | Number of facilitiesb | Number of HCW-years | Number of TB casesb | Tuberculosis notifications, all types, per 100,000 HCW-years | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 centersd | 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)