Too much of a good thing: management of BCG vaccine overdose.

A 14-year-old girl was inadvertently immunised with an excessively large dose of BCG-Connaught vaccine (1.0 ml instead of 0.1 ml).

The association between subjective and clinical indicators of health in prospective Vietnamese migrants.

We conducted a cross-sectional survey of 1669 prospective Vietnamese migrants who had applied to migrate to Australia to describe the association between self-reported health status and several commonly used clinical indicators of health among prospective Vietnamese migrants. Participants were recruited from the International Organization for Migration's standardised medical screening program.' We found that clinical indicators of health are related to self-reported health status among prospective Vietnamese migrants.

Results of tuberculosis screening in applicants for migration in Vietnam and Cambodia.

Setting: Pre-migration medical screening programmes in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Objective: To compare the rates of newly diagnosed bacteriologically confirmed tuberculosis (TB) in a cohort of migration applicants in Vietnam and Cambodia with current estimates of the TB burden in these countries.

Design: Interviews and medical screening of 5108 Vietnamese and 910 Cambodian migration applicants who applied for an Australian visa.

Predictors of tuberculin reactivity among prospective Vietnamese migrants: the effect of smoking.

We investigated the prevalence and predictors of positive tuberculin skin test (TST) results among prospective Vietnamese migrants. We interviewed and medically screened 1395 Vietnamese people aged over 15 years who had applied to migrate to Australia. Approximately 44% of applicants had an induration of 10 mm or more, and 18.

The effectiveness of a directly mailed smoking cessation intervention to Australian discharged hospital patients.

Background: The objective was to assess the effectiveness of a directly mailed smoking cessation intervention to discharged hospital patients.

Methods: A randomized controlled trial was used. In the 2 weeks after discharge, smokers in the intervention group were sent by mail a personally addressed letter from their medical consultant urging them to quit plus a self-help quitting manual, and smokers in the control group received usual care.