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Patient Isolation
Therapeutische Umschau (68)7 2011
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Unexplained cough for more than 2 - 3 weeks or patients considered to be at high risk for tuberculosis (TB) should be investigated in a timely manner: Chest radiography and 3 sputum examinations for detection acid-fast bacilli and TB cultures are essential first diagnostic steps. Pending sputum resul...
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PMID: 21728154
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Medical management of patients internally contaminated in nuclear emergency needs, in addition to general medical treatment, to evaluate doses due to intakes of radioactive materials, to conduct effective treatment with stable isotopes and chelating agents and to keep public away fro...
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PMID: 21736042
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New England Journal of Medicine (364)15 2011
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We evaluated the effect of surveillance for MRSA and VRE colonization and of the expanded use of barrier precautions (intervention) as compared with existing practice (control) on the incidence of MRSA or VRE colonization or infection in adult ICUs. Surveillance cultures were obtained from patients...
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PMID: 21488763
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a substantial source of morbidity among burn patients. The objectives of this study were to determine the feasibility and efficacy of surveillance cultures and isolation precautions on limiting the transmission of MRSA among burn...
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PMID: 21422940
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Audio, Transactions of the IRE Professional Group on (204)6 Suppl 1 2011
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We conducted surveys of neonatal intensive care unit directors in February and November 2010 and requested information on infection control practices during the 2009 and 2010 influenza seasons. We received 111 responses to the initial survey and 48 to the follow-up survey. In 2009, 58% of respondent...
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PMID: 21514557
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CJEM : Canadian journal of emergency medical care = JCMU : journal canadien de soins medicaux d'urgence (13)2 2011
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Numerous barriers to maintaining infection control practices through the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) exist in the emergency department (ED). This study examined the knowledge, self-reported behaviours, and barriers to compliance with infection control practices and the use of PPE in Ca...
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PMID: 21435312
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Presse Medicale (40)4 Pt 1 2011
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Saudi journal of kidney diseases and transplantation : an official publication of the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation, Saudi Arabia (21)5 2010
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We report on the follow-up of the epidemiology of hepatitis C viremia in our dialysis unit after our previous report, over the period from July 1, 2003 to December 31, 2005. The methods to reduce the prevalence of hepatitis C viremia in our center included: strict adherence to universal infection co...
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PMID: 20814130
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Nurses have the most frequent contact with patients, and it makes their risk of infection very high. At the same time, they have a lot of opportunities to control patient's behavior to prevent infection. So it takes important part of precaution that all nurses sufficiently acknowledge their roles an...
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PMID: 20845754
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Southern Medical Journal (103)9 2010
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Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is an important cause of intestinal disease, primarily affecting hospitalized patients exposed to antibiotics. Infection has been associated with prolonged hospital stays and excess healthcare expenditures. Recent changes in the epidemiology, pathogenesis, and t...
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PMID: 20697321
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Despite elimination of endemic measles in the United States (US), outbreaks associated with imported measles continue to occur. In 2007, the initiation of a multistate measles outbreak was associated with an imported case occurring in a participant at an international youth sporting event held in Pe...
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PMID: 20400927
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Many simple and probably low-cost interventions would be useful for reducing the transmission of epidemic respiratory viruses. Routine long-term implementation of some of the measures assessed might be difficult without the threat of a looming epidemic....
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PMID: 20648717
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Clinical Infectious Diseases (50)12 2010
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We conducted a literature review and considered isolation of virus and virus load in saliva and respiratory secretions as factors that were related to mumps transmission risk. Although mumps virus has been isolated from 7 days before through 8 days after parotitis onset, the highest percentage of po...
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PMID: 20455692
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We observed difficulties in controlling colonization with measures directed mainly by surveillance cultures and differences between responses of E faecium and E faecalis.
Copyright 2010 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Mosby, Inc. All rights rese...
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PMID: 20006408
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In ICUs, AST detected 11 times more MRSA than clinical cultures. The lack of reduction in MRSA infection rates in the ICUs does not negate the roles of AST and DS, but does argue for better study design and outcome measures like MRSA transmission incidence, which perhaps would have demonstrated a tr...
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PMID: 20189267
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We therefore determined levels of anxiety, depression and quality of life in patients exposed to short-term isolation. In a cross-sectional matched cohort study, performed in a single university hospital, patients isolated for infection control were evaluated with the Hospital Anxiety and Depression...
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PMID: 20381912
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We estimated the proportion of persons with pandemic (H1N1) 2009 who were shedding infectious virus at diagnosis and on day 8 of illness. In households with confirmed cases, nasopharyngeal swabs were collected on all members and tested by PCR and virus culture. Of 47 cases confirmed by PCR at <7 d...
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PMID: 20409367
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Kinderkrankenschwester : Organ der Sektion Kinderkrankenpflege / Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Sozialpadiatrie und Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Kinderheilkunde (29)5 2010
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AIDS policy & law (25)6 2010
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Critical Care Medicine (38)4 Suppl 2010
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We hope to offer some insight into potential pitfalls and problems that may be experienced by other centers and provide some potential approaches to addressing these issues....
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PMID: 20101177
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Zentralblatt für Chirurgie (135)2 2010
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The transmission of multidrug-resistant organisms (MRSA, VRE and ESBL producing bacteria) occurs predominantly if health-care workers are not compliant with hand hygiene procedures. The impact of single-room isolation in transmission prevention is often overestimated. As long as hand disinfection is...
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PMID: 20379942
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Critical Care Nurse (30)2 2010
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Agitation/disorientation was the most frequent reason for the use of restraint and seclusion. The duration of the restraint and seclusion episodes was not determined by the reason for using these measures. Some differences in the reasons were found among subgroups of patients. CONCLUSION: Clinical p...
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PMID: 19883195
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We report a systematic, retrospective case review of an active-duty Army sergeant who sustained a C5 American Spinal Cord Injury Association Impairment Scale A spinal cord injury while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom. The patient's acute rehabilitation was complicated by an Acinetobacter calcoace...
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PMID: 20068440
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Mathematical Biosciences (224)1 2010
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We use distribution theory and ordering of non-negative random variables to study the Susceptible-Exposed-Infectious-Removed (SEIR) model with two control measures, quarantine and isolation, to reduce the spread of an infectious disease. We identify that the probability distributions of the latent p...
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PMID: 20043927
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In this interview, Gayle Bluebird, RN, Director of the Office of Technical Assistance (OTA) Center for Peer Networking, discusses the history and progress of the peer specialist movement. For the past 40 years, Gayle Bluebird has advocated for persons with psychiatric disabilities in service sectors...
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PMID: 20144035
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This study explores and describes nursing interventions performed during episodes of seclusion with or without restraint in a psychiatric facility and examines the relationship between the interventions' local protocols and best-practice guidelines. Twenty-four nurses working in a psychiatric facili...
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PMID: 20144032
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Efforts to reduce aggression and violence and the use of restraint and seclusion have traditionally been through some form of educational program. This paper presents an integrative review of research and quality improvement projects that aimed to reduce aggression/violence or restraint/seclusion th...
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PMID: 20144030
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This year is the centennial anniversary of the five national leprosaria in Japan. It means that the official accommodation of leprosy patients who were wandering on the streets started in 1909. At that time, the existence of these leprosy patients on the streets was considered as a national shame an...
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PMID: 20169982
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Igiene e sanita pubblica (66)4 2010
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Significant developments took place in the area of infection control since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, (CDC, USA) 1996 publication of a guideline for isolation precautions in hospitals. New guidelines were therefore published by CDC in 2007 (Guideline for Isolation Precautions: P...
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PMID: 21132041
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Orvostorteneti kozlemenyek (56)1-4 2010
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Before the WWI significantly more loss was caused to armies by various epidemies, than by weapons. Although as a result of development of medical sciences in the WWI this rate changed, the main epidemies namely cholera, malaria and trachoma still ravaged quite often. In spite of the...
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PMID: 21661262
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Tijdschrift voor psychiatrie (52)11 2010
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We tried to conduct a mid-term evaluation in order to find out to what extent the various policy makers involved were still in favor of the new strategy.
We interviewed 11 of the parties involved (ranging from politicians and inspectors to professionals and patients) in order to evaluate the process...
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PMID: 21064020
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I matched and/or cytotoxic T-lymphocyte precursor (CTLp)-negative donors and (2) protective isolation of the recipient and antimicrobial suppression of his/her gut microflora to prevent infections and acute GVHD. Engraftment, GVHD, relapse in the case of malignancy and survival were studied retrospe...
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PMID: 19448680
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A 68-year-old man, immunocompromised due to non-Hodgkin lymphoma and chemotherapy, was admitted for a community-acquired norovirus infection. He developed chronic intermittent diarrhoea and cachexia. A video-capsule examination showed severe mucosal atrophy in the jejunum. The patient died eight mon...
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PMID: 20456762
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Euro surveillance : bulletin europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin (15)7 2010
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In October 2009, a traveller returning from Africa to Italy was hospitalised with symptoms suggestive of a haemorrhagic fever of unknown origin. The patient was immediately placed in a special biocontainment unit until laboratory investigations confirmed the infection to be caused by a dengue seroty...
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PMID: 20184855
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During the DELAY and CONTAIN phases of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza in NSW, public health units needed to rapidly surge operations to manage the 3070 potential cases and 1894 contacts notified to them. The Incident Control System, NetEpi (the web-based multi-user access database), training to up-s...
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PMID: 20374688
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Pneumonologia i alergologia polska : organ Polskiego Towarzystwa Ftyzjopneumonologicznego, Polskiego Towarzystwa Alergologicznego, i Instytutu Gruzlicy i Chorob Pluc (78)3 2010
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Patients in the PIU tended to be complicated by insomnia or depression more than those in the SW, but the stay in the PIU was not significantly related to the incidence of insomnia or depression. Our findings indicated that use of CS was a risk factor for insomnia. The prevalence of depression was h...
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PMID: 20045996
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The author, in a previous paper, has argued that there is no hard evidence to show that the foundation of the "Kaishun Byoshitsu" in the Tokyo City Yoikuin (poorhouse) was in 1899. In developing the conclusion, this article, first, estimates the correct time of the founding the facility and, second,...
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PMID: 20503781
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It has been an accepted story until today that in 1899 Kensuke Mitsuda's efforts led to the founding of "Kaishun Byoshitsu", an isolation ward for leprosy patients in Japanese modern times first located in the Tokyo City Yoikuin (poorhouse). But, in this paper, the author has collected as many docum...
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PMID: 20503780
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Emerging Infectious Diseases (15)11 2009
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We describe the public health response and outcomes resulting from the importation of a wild poliovirus infection in Melbourne, Australia, in July 2007. This response, based on an assessment of the risk for transmission, included offering vaccination with inactivated polio vaccine to the contacts an...
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PMID: 19891859
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SADJ : journal of the South African Dental Association = tydskrif van die Suid-Afrikaanse Tandheelkundige Vereniging (64)9 2009
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The risk of transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) in oral healthcare facilities is probably low, but the consequences if it occurs, are grave. The greatest risk of exposure to Mtb transmission is associated with treating dental patients from communities with a high prevalence of tuberculo...
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PMID: 20411836
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Pflege Zeitschrift (62)10 2009
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Pharmacotherapy (29)8 2009
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Data from patients receiving the antipsychotic regimens between August 2004 and March 2007 were reviewed. Mean +/- SD doses were 6.4 +/- 2.4 mg (range 2.5-10 mg) for haloperidol and 8.1 +/- 2.3 mg (range 5-10 mg) for olanzapine. The mean +/- SD cost of treating an episode of agitation with haloperid...
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PMID: 19637946
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New data are available, but the conflict surrounding the use of active surveillance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has not been resolved. The emergence of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria has prompted a greater interest in infection control strategies for prevention...
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PMID: 19461513
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Two contact persons appearanced fever and whose throat swabs were tested positive to H1N1 viral nucleic acid. The two had a history of contact in a short distance with the initial imported case without any protective measure in the poor air ventilation. The patients clinical situation was slight. Th...
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PMID: 19957590
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The protection rate on post-exposure vaccination among children under observation was 85.26%. The rates were higher when the 1st case had received varicella vaccine before the onset, vaccines were administered soon after the exposure or there were less varicella cases occurred in the schools. For ch...
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PMID: 19957618
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Pediatrics (123)5 2009
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A continuous program of weekly methicillin-resistant S aureus surveillance cultures and isolation of affected infants was associated with a variable incidence of methicillin-resistant S aureus colonization over a 7-year study period. Methicillin-resistant S aureus was not eradicated from this tertia...
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PMID: 19403471
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We do and do not know about the potential benefits and harms of isolation as a public health measure and proposes a framework for considering under what circumstances it might optimally be used....
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PMID: 19196174
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This is the sixth in a series of articles from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston describing one general medical unit's experiences with Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB). An initiative begun by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, TCAB...
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PMID: 19299992
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Recent efforts to combat infections have focused on pharmaceutical interventions. However, the global spread of antimicrobial resistance calls for the reappraisal of personal and institutional hygiene. Hygiene embodies behavioural and procedural rules that prevent bacterial transmission. Consequentl...
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PMID: 19291143
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Twenty-six patients and 28 staff were on the unit during the outbreak. Eight patients and 8 staff members reported ILI within 5 days. Of the ill patients, 3 had been immunized, 5 had not (2 refused, 3 reason unclear presumed to have refused), and 4 were admitted to acute care and placed in Droplet/C...
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PMID: 18945518
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We conclude that the system as designed and installed is an effective, robust and reliable system upon which to base a multimedia interventions in a critical care room....
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PMID: 20038245
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Igiene e sanita pubblica (65)2 2009
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