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Gopalakrishna-Remani, Venugopal – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Timely identification and reporting of rare infectious diseases has important economic, social and health implications. In this study, we investigate how different stakeholders in the existing reporting system influence the timeliness in identification and reporting of rare infectious diseases. Building on the vision of the information supply…
Descriptors: Communicable Diseases, Information Systems, Disease Control, Identification
Khan, Yosef M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Background: Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a hardy and extremely virulent multidrug resistant organism that has been a major cause of hospital acquired infections ever since its discovery in the 1960's. It has severe consequences such as causing increased hospital length of stay, economic burden, morbidity, and mortality.…
Descriptors: Hospitals, Information Systems, Microbiology, Communicable Diseases