TABLE 1—

Analysis of Tuberculosis (TB) Screening Policies Across the 50 US States

TB Screening Policy	No. of States
Health care facilities and workers
All health care workers	18
Hospital personnel only	7
Personnel at a nonhospital care facility (e.g., nursing homes, long-term care facilities, surgery centers)	36
Correctional facilities
All staff at correctional facilities	13
All inmates	13
School-based screening
All school employees	14
All child care providers (e.g., day care facilities)	10
All schoolchildren	4
Community centers
Personnel at community-based substance abuse treatment centers	12
Personnel at homeless shelters	4
Risk-based screening alone	5
Immigrant-based screening
Foreign-born teachers and students	1
Students arriving from “high risk countries”	1
Foreign-born students at state universities or residential educational facilities	1
Foreign-born children admitted to child care centers	1

Note. Results are based on overview of TB policies from 50 states. All TB screening policies are not represented in the table.

Source. Adapted and expanded from The Centers for Law and the Public’s Health.⁵