Healthcare Epidemiology: Hospital Staffing and Health Care–Associated Infections: A Systematic Review of the Literature
Open Access
- 1 October 2008
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 47 (7) , 937-944
- https://doi.org/10.1086/591696
Abstract
In the past 10 years, many researchers have examined relationships between hospital staffing and patients' risk of health care–associated infection (Keywords
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