An Evaluation of an Automated Hospital Outbreak Detection System (WHONET-SaTScan) Versus Standard Outbreak Detection Approach
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عنوان ژورنال: Open Forum Infectious Diseases
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2328-8957
DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofw172.1068