How to survey nosocomial infections

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 366-370

  Gastmeier, Petra ^a   Sohr, Dorit ^a   Just, Heinz Michael ^b   Nassauer, Alfred ^c   Daschner, Franz ^d   Rüden, Henning ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Institute for Medical Microbiology and Clinical Epidemiology   (Germany)

^c ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS INFECTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR;

CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0034199425     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/501774     Document Type: Article

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