Room ventilation and the risk of airborne infection transmission in 3 health care settings within a large teaching hospital

American Journal of Infection Control

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 866-872

  Knibbs, Luke D ^a   Morawska, Lidia ^a   Bell, Scott C ^b,c   Grzybowski, Piotr ^a,d  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

air exchange; Infection control; influenza; rhinovirus; tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

AIRBORNE INFECTION; AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EMERGENCY WARD; HOSPITAL DESIGN; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL POLICY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; INFLUENZA; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; OUTPATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RHINOVIRUS INFECTION; ROOM VENTILATION; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TUBERCULOSIS;

CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; PICORNAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TUBERCULOSIS; VENTILATION;

EID: 82655162298     PISSN: 01966553     EISSN: 15273296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2011.02.014     Document Type: Article

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