Adapting disease-specific isolation guidelines to a hospital information system.
The authors modified the Centers for Disease Control's guideline for disease-specific isolation precautions to a hospital computerized informatioan system. Entering a suspected diagnosis selected from the isolation option on computer terminals generated: 1) a printout listing the isolation instructi...
| Publicado en: | Infection Control Vol. 7; no. 8; pp. 411 - 419 |
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| Formato: | tables/charts Journal Article |
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SLACK Incorporated
1986 Aug
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