Monitoring Major Illness in Health Care Workers and Hospital Staff
Author(s) -
Lydia N. Drumright,
Alison Holmes
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/cir384
Subject(s) - medicine , medline , health care , nursing staff , medical emergency , family medicine , nursing , political science , law , economics , economic growth
The study in this month’s Clinical Infectious Diseases by Seto and colleagues highlights the importance of detailed surveillance and research of infectious diseases among HCWs in understanding the roles of HCWs and patients in nosocomial transmission. It demonstrates the value of an organizational ability to adopt and integrate innovative methods into hospital procedures, and also some missed opportunities to gain a more complete understand the observations.
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