The analysis of disease clusters, part I: State of the art

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 319-327

  Jacquez, G M ^a   Waller, L A ^b   Grimson, R ^c   Wartenberg, D ^d  

^a BIOMEDWARE INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CROSS INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ALGORITHMS; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; SOFTWARE; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030141362     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/30141932     Document Type: Article

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