Who is monitoring your infections: Shouldn't you be?

Surgical Infections

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 59-64

  Claridge, Jeffrey A ^a   Golob Jr , Joseph F ^a   Fadlalla, Adam M A ^b   D'Amico, Beth M ^a   Peerless, Joel R ^a   Yowler, Charles J ^a   Malangoni, Mark A ^a  

^a METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS INFECTION; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; REGISTER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

CROSS INFECTION; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; REGISTRIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 67649560323     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: 15578674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2008.056     Document Type: Article

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