Efficacy of surveillance for 2009 H1N1 pandemic within a healthcare system

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 811-814

  Cinti, Sandro ^a,b   Haas, Karyn ^c   Paliani, Paul ^c   Newton, Duane ^c   Wright, Carrie ^c   Zalewski, Christy ^c   Holmes, Jennifer G ^c   Dwyer, Shon ^c   Friedman, Candace ^c   Chenoweth, Carol ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Ann Arbor Veteran Affairs Medical System   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA; ARTICLE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MICHIGAN; PANDEMICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 79960706297     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/661106     Document Type: Article

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