Open AccessHELICS: a European project to standardise the surveillance of hospital acquired infection, 1994-1995
Author(s) -
R Mertens,
J. M.J van den Berg,
J. Fabry,
Otto Jepsen
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
euro surveillance/eurosurveillance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.766
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1560-7917
pISSN - 1025-496X
DOI - 10.2807/esm.01.04.00154-en
Subject(s) - medicine , disease control , infection control , epidemiologic surveillance , medical emergency , environmental health , intensive care medicine , epidemiology , pathology
During the 1990s several European countries began to set up national or regional networks for the surveillance of hospital acquired infections. Most of these networks were based on the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Nosocomia