Significance of healthcare-associated infection surveillance
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Healthcare-associated infection surveillance and bedside alerts.
Expectations and requirements concerning the identification and surveillance of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are increasing, calling for differentiated automated approaches. In an attempt to bridge the "definition swamp" of these infections and serve the needs of different users, we improved the monitoring of nosocomial infections (MONI) software to create better surveillance reports...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Juntendo Medical Journal
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0022-6769,2188-2134
DOI: 10.14789/pjmj.53.397