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Broad Approach, Including Computer System, to Improve Hospital Hygiene

September 23, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment
Yehuda Carmeli
Yehuda Carmeli

REFERENCE: Abstract K-1373, 47th Annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), Chicago, 2007
YEHUDA CARMELI, Tel-Aviv Medical Center
Hospitals can prevent significant numbers of infections by taking up a multi-faceted approach, including the use of a computer program to guide the isolation of patients. Derek Thorne spoke to Yehuda Carmeli of the Tel-Aviv Medical Center about his hospital’s experience.

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