Quantitative epidemiology

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 249-255

  Freeman, Jonathan ^a  

^a CHANNING LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS INFECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOSPITAL; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE;

CROSS INFECTION; DATA COLLECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HOSPITALS; RESEARCH DESIGN; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0030113348     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/30141028     Document Type: Article

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