Modeling the spread of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) outbreaks throughout the hospitals in Orange County, California

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 562-572

  Lee, Bruce Y ^a   McGlone, Sarah M ^a   Wong, Kim F ^a   Yilmaz, S Levent ^a   Avery, Taliser R ^b   Song, Yeohan ^a   Christie, Richard ^a   Eubank, Stephen ^c   Brown, Shawn T ^a,d   Epstein, Joshua M ^e   Parker, Jon I ^e   Burke, Donald S ^a   Platt, Richard ^b   Huang, Susan S ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d PITTSBURGH SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PATIENT READMISSION; PATIENT TRANSFER; PREVALENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79957966376     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/660014     Document Type: Article

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