Healthcare worker contact networks and the prevention of hospital-acquired infections

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Curtis, Donald E ^a,c   Hlady, Christopher S ^a,d   Kanade, Gaurav ^a,e   Pemmaraju, Sriram V ^a   Polgreen, Philip M ^b   Segre, Alberto M ^a  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^d AMAZON   (United States)

^e Innovative Scheduling Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS INFECTION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; SOCIAL NETWORKING; VACCINATION;

EID: 84893565626     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079906     Document Type: Article

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