Table 1 Current screening, ideal electronic health record-based California Department of Public Health screening, and predictors for new prediction model for tuberculosis disease by tuberculosis disease status for Kaiser Permanente Southern California population, N = 4,032,619

From: Development and validation of prediction algorithm to identify tuberculosis in two large California health systems

Characteristica

No TB Disease, N = 4,031,694b

TB Disease, N = 925b

Current Screening in year before index

207,817 (5.2%)

45 (4.9%)

Current Screening in full study period

715,828 (18%)

139 (15%)

Ideal EHR-based CDPH screening

1,199,035 (30%)

695 (75%)

Sex

 Female

2,093,599 (52%)

410 (44%)

 Male

1,938,095 (48%)

515 (56%)

Age (years)

 18–<35 years

1,508,564 (37%)

161 (17%)

 35–<50 years

1,117,798 (28%)

187 (20%)

 50–<65 years

964,189 (24%)

288 (31%)

 65–<75 years

292,823 (7.3%)

194 (21%)

 75+ years

148,320 (3.7%)

95 (10%)

Body mass index category

 Less than 18.5: underweight

48,840 (1.2%)

29 (3.1%)

 18.5–25: healthy weight

1,044,269 (26%)

396 (43%)

 25–30: overweight

1,236,753 (31%)

273 (30%)

 30–35: moderately obese

730,474 (18%)

109 (12%)

 Over 35: severely obese

519,323 (13%)

36 (3.9%)

 Missing

452,035 (11%)

82 (8.9%)

Born in a HTBIC (actual and imputed)

 Yes

1,165,980 (29%)

686 (74%)

 No

2,865,714 (71%)

239 (26%)

Race/Ethnicity

 White

1,457,624 (36%)

103 (11%)

 Asian/Pacific Islander

456,019 (11%)

467 (50%)

 Black

326,617 (8.1%)

48 (5.2%)

 Hispanic

1,487,866 (37%)

297 (32%)

 Other/Multiple/Unknown

303,568 (7.5%)

10 (1.1%)

 Diabetes

340,270 (8.4%)

239 (26%)

 Immunosuppressed

43,827 (1.1%)

35 (3.8%)

 Weighted Charlson Comorbidity Score, continuous

1 (1, 1)

1 (1, 3)

 0

3,180,297 (79%)

511 (55%)

 1–3

738,726 (18%)

317 (34%)

 4+

112,671 (2.8%)

97 (10%)

  1. aAdditional candidate predictors considered presented in Supplementary Table 1.
  2. bn (%).
  3. CDPH California Department of Public Health, EHR electronic health record, HTBIC High tuberculosis incidence country.