901Presumptive Isolation or Screen and Isolate for Patients at High Risk for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: A Monte Carlo Simulation of the Economic Impact to the Individual Hospital
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for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: A Monte Carlo Simulation of the Economic Impact to the Individual Hospital James A. Mckinnell, MD; Sarah M. Bartsch, MPH; Bruce Lee, MD, MBA; Susan S. Huang, MD, MPH, FIDSA; Loren Miller, MD, MPH; Torrance Memorial Medical Center, Torrance, CA; Infectious Disease Clinical Outcomes Research Unit at Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, Torrance, CA; Public Health Computational and Operations Research Group, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD; Division of Infectious Diseases and Health Policy Research Institute, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, CA
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