Accuracy of reporting nosocomial infections in intensive-care-unit patients to the National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System: A pilot study

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 308-316

  Emori, T Grace ^a   Edwards, Jonathan R ^a   Culver, David H ^a   Sartor, Catherine ^a,c   Stroud, Leonardo A ^a   Gaunt, Edward E ^b   Horan, Teresa C ^a   Gaynes, Robert P ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b Research Triangle Institute   (United States)

^c HÔPITAL DE LA CONCEPTION   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS INFECTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MULTICENTER STUDY; PILOT STUDY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

CROSS INFECTION; DATA COLLECTION; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; PILOT PROJECTS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032058814     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/30141370     Document Type: Article

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