Influenza aerosols in UK hospitals during the H1N1 (2009) pandemic - the risk of aerosol generation during medical procedures

With our small sample size we found that AGPs do not significantly increase the probability of sampling an H1N1 (2009) positive aerosol (OR (95% CI)?=?4.31 (0.83-22.5). Although the probability of detecting positive H1N1 (2009) positive aerosols when performing various AGPs on intensive care patient...

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Main Authors: Thompson, Katy-Anne (Author), Pappachan, John V. (Author), Bennett, Allan M. (Author), Mittal, Himanshu (Author), Macken, Susan (Author), Dove, Brian K. (Author), Nguyen- (Author), Copley, Vicky R. (Author), O'Brien, Sarah (Author), Hoffman, Peter (Author), Parks, Simon (Author), Bentley, Andrew (Author), Isalska, Barbara (Author), Thomson, Gail (Author)
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Language:English
Published: 2013.
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