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Community-Acquired Notifiable Infectious Diseases in a Pediatric Hospital Effect on Infection Control Work Load

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Paul Shears ,
Julie Hughes ,
Doreen H. Brown  and
Anne G. Wright
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Abstract

In a study of the impact of notifiable communicable disease admissions on infection control work load, we found notifiable disease cases to be responsible for less than 10% of admissions but 27% of infection control ward visits and to require extensive community liaison. Measures of work load based on nosocomial infections alone will underestimate infection control activity considerably.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , April 1997 , pp. 249 - 252
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1997

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