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Impact of hand washing on bacteraemia rates

Author(s) -

Yasmin Friedmann,

Mike B. Gravenor,

Owen Bodger,

Mark Temple

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

bmj

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.831

H-Index - 429

ISSN - 1756-1833

DOI - 10.1136/bmj.e4299

Subject(s) - hygiene , transmission (telecommunications) , staphylococcus aureus , medicine , cross infection , intensive care medicine , biology , computer science , bacteria , telecommunications , pathology , genetics

Stone and colleagues’ results are consistent with mathematical models of hospital transmission of meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).1 This can be shown using Cooper and colleagues’ model, whereby transmission within hospital is described by an effective contact rate parameter between susceptible and infectious people. Improved hygiene conditions reduce the probability that contact between people results …

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