Evaluation of healthcare-associated infection surveillance in Pennsylvania hospitals

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 105-111

  Palumbo, Aimee J ^a,b   Loveless, P Ann ^a   Moll, Mària E ^a   Ostroff, Stephen ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATHETER INFECTION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOSPITAL SUBDIVISIONS AND COMPONENTS; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; UNITED STATES;

CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; PENNSYLVANIA; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 84855551249     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/663709     Document Type: Article

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