Completeness of Surveillance Data Reported by the National Healthcare Safety Network: An Analysis of Healthcare-Associated Infections Ascertained in a Tertiary Care Hospital, 2010

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 94-96

  Weber, David J ^a   Sickbert Bennett, Emily E ^a   Brown, Vickie ^a   Rutala, William A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CATHETER INFECTION; DEVICE INFECTION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HOSPITAL ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MORTALITY; SURGICAL INFECTION; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

BENCHMARKING; CROSS INFECTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; NORTH CAROLINA; PREVALENCE; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 84055213001     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/663344     Document Type: Article

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