Nosocomial Hazards of Doctor`s Mobile Phones in Hospitals
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Mobile phones: Reservoirs for the transmission of nosocomial pathogens
BACKGROUND Global burden of hospital-associated infection (HAI) is on the rise and contributes significantly to morbidity and mortality of the patients. Mobile phones are indispensible part of communication among doctors and other health care workers (HCWs) in hospitals. Hands of HCWs play an important role in transmission of HAI and mobile phones which are seldom cleaned and often touched duri...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Sciences
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1682-4474
DOI: 10.3923/jms.2008.73.76