Detection of Clostridium difficile infection clusters, using the temporal scan statistic, in a community hospital in southern Ontario, Canada, 2006–2011

BACKGROUND: In hospitals, Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) surveillance relies on unvalidated guidelines or threshold criteria to identify outbreaks. This can result in false-positive and -negative cluster alarms. The application of statistical methods to identify and understand CDI clusters ma...

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Autores principales: Faires, Meredith C, Pearl, David L, Ciccotelli, William A, Berke, Olaf, Reid-Smith, Richard J, Weese, J Scott
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4030047/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24885351
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-14-254

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