Patient referral patterns and the spread of hospital-acquired infections through national health care networks.

Rates of hospital-acquired infections, such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), are increasingly used as quality indicators for hospital hygiene. Alternatively, these rates may vary between hospitals, because hospitals differ in admission and referral of potentially colonized pati...

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Main Authors: Tjibbe Donker, Jacco Wallinga, Hajo Grundmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-03-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2841613?pdf=render