Efficient surveillance for healthcare-associated infections spreading between hospitals

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2271-2276

  Ciccolini, Mariano ^a,b   Donker, Tjibbe ^b,c   Grundmann, Hajo ^b,c   Bonten, Marc J M ^d   Woolhouse, Mark E J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Network; Patient referrals

Indexed keywords

DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; UNITED KINGDOM;

NETWORK; PATIENT REFERRALS;

CROSS INFECTION; ENGLAND; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; NETHERLANDS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 84893836589     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1308062111     Document Type: Review

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