Lessons learned from a prolonged and costly norovirus outbreak at a Scottish medicine of the elderly hospital: case study

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 127-134

  Danial, J ^a   Ballard Smith, S ^b   Horsburgh, C ^a   Crombie, C ^a   Ovens, A ^a   Templeton, K E ^a   Hardie, A ^a   Cameron, F ^a   Harvey, L ^a   Stevenson, J ^b   Johannessen, I ^a  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b NHS LOTHIAN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Economic loss; Norovirus; Outbreak; Quality improvement; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST OF ILLNESS; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; EPIDEMIC; GERIATRIC HOSPITAL; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NOROVIRUS INFECTION; SCOTLAND; AGED; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; NOROVIRUS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; NOROVIRUS; SCOTLAND;

EID: 84962607945     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: 15322939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2016.02.002     Document Type: Article

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