July effect: Impact of the academic year-end changeover on the incidence of healthcare-associated infections

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 321-322

  Di Biase, Lauren M ^a   Weber, David J ^a,b   Sickbert Bennett, Emily E ^a,b   Denniston, Clark ^b   Rutala, William A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA HOSPITALS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES;

CROSS INFECTION; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; NORTH CAROLINA; PERSONNEL TURNOVER;

EID: 84893902528     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/675284     Document Type: Article

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