Estimating Potential Infection Transmission Routes in Hospital Wards Using Wearable Proximity Sensors
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Estimating Potential Infection Transmission Routes in Hospital Wards Using Wearable Proximity Sensors
BACKGROUND Contacts between patients, patients and health care workers (HCWs) and among HCWs represent one of the important routes of transmission of hospital-acquired infections (HAI). A detailed description and quantification of contacts in hospitals provides key information for HAIs epidemiology and for the design and validation of control measures. METHODS AND FINDINGS We used wearable se...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS ONE
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073970