Automated Detection of Infectious Disease Outbreaks in Hospitals: A Retrospective Cohort Study

BACKGROUND: Detection of outbreaks of hospital-acquired infections is often based on simple rules, such as the occurrence of three new cases of a single pathogen in two weeks on the same ward. These rules typically focus on only a few pathogens, and they do not account for the pathogens' underl...

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Autores principales: Huang, Susan S., Yokoe, Deborah S., Stelling, John, Placzek, Hilary, Kulldorff, Martin, Kleinman, Ken, O'Brien, Thomas F., Calderwood, Michael S., Vostok, Johanna, Dunn, Julie, Platt, Richard
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2826381/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20186274
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000238

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2826381/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20186274
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000238

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