Healthcare worker contact networks and the prevention of hospital-acquired infections.

We present a comprehensive approach to using electronic medical records (EMR) for constructing contact networks of healthcare workers in a hospital. This approach is applied at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC)--a 3.2 million square foot facility with 700 beds and about 8,000 healt...

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Main Authors: Donald E Curtis, Christopher S Hlady, Gaurav Kanade, Sriram V Pemmaraju, Philip M Polgreen, Alberto M Segre
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3875421?pdf=render