Reducing hospital acquired infections and professional exposures to blood borne infections through training, surveillance and intervention
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Feeding back surveillance data to prevent hospital-acquired infections.
We describe the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance system. Elements of the system critical for successful reduction of nosocomial infection rates include voluntary participation and confidentiality; standard definitions and protocols; identification of populations at high risk; site-specific, risk- adjusted infection rates comparable across ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Infection Control
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1996-9783
DOI: 10.3396/03-01-08-007