A simulation model to compare strategies for the reduction of health-care-associated infections

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Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 256-270

  Hagtvedt, Reidar ^a   Griffin, Paul ^b   Keskinocak, Pinar ^b   Roberts, Rebecca ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c Jr Hospital of Cook County   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrete event simulation; Health care; Health care associated infections

Indexed keywords

EID: 67651087385     PISSN: 00922102     EISSN: 1526551X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/inte.1090.0435     Document Type: Article

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