Effect of proactive infection control measures on benchmarked rate of hospital outbreaks: An analysis of public hospitals in Hong Kong over 5 years

BACKGROUND: Hospital outbreaks of epidemiologically important pathogens are usually caused by lapses in infection control measures and result in increased morbidity, mortality, and cost. However, there is no benchmark to compare the occurrence of hospital outbreaks across hospitals. METHODS: We impl...

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Autores principales: Cheng, Vincent C.C., Tai, Josepha W.M., Wong, Lisa M.W., Ching, Radley H.C., Ng, Modissa M.L., Ho, Sara K.Y., Lee, Doris W.Y., Li, W.S., Lee, W.M., Sridhar, Siddharth, Wong, Sally C.Y., Ho, P.L., Yuen, K.Y.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Mosby, Inc. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7115301/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26059601
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2015.04.203

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