Use of Binary Cumulative Sums and Moving Averages in Nosocomial Infection Cluster Detection

Clusters of nosocomial infection often occur undetected, at substantial cost to the medical system and individual patients. We evaluated binary cumulative sum (CUSUM) and moving average (MA) control charts for automated detection of nosocomial clusters. We selected two outbreaks with genotyped strai...

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Autores principales: Brown, Samuel M., Benneyan, James C., Theobald, Daniel A., Sands, Kenneth, Hahn, Matthew T., Potter-Bynoe, Gail A., Stelling, John M., O'Brien, Thomas F., Goldmann, Donald A.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2002
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2737829/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12498659
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid0812.010514

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2737829/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12498659
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid0812.010514

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