892Cost-Benefit Analysis of Universal Screening and Contact Precautions for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Carriers from the Hospital Perspective

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  • James A. Mckinnell
  • Sarah M. Bartsch
  • Bruce Lee
  • Susan S. Huang
  • Loren Miller
چکیده

for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Carriers from the Hospital Perspective James A. Mckinnell, MD; Sarah M. Bartsch, MPH; Bruce Lee, MD, MBA; Susan S. Huang, MD, MPH, FIDSA; Loren Miller, MD, MPH; Torrance Memorial Medical Center, Torrance, CA; Infectious Disease Clinical Outcomes Research Unit at Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, Torrance, CA; Public Health Computational and Operations Research Group, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD; Division of Infectious Diseases and Health Policy Research Institute, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, CA

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تاریخ انتشار 2014