Modelling infection risk due to environmental contamination in hospital single and multi-bed ward accommodation

This research considers whether hospital single rooms are better than multi-bed accommodation at reducing the risk of healthcare-acquired infections. The focus is to provide a mathematical model which quantifies the contamination levels of healthcare workers’ (HCW) hands from surfaces within rooms....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: King, Marco-Felipe
Other Authors: Noakes, Catherine ; Sleigh, Andrew
Published: University of Leeds 2013
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.605303