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Computers in Hospital Epidemiology Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2017

David Birnbaum
David Birnbaum*
Affiliation:
Applied Epidemiology, Sidney, British Columbia, Canada
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Beyond a potential role in infection surveillance, computers offer epidemiologists several important and unique potentials. Epidemiologists deal with complex interrelationships when interpreting or contributing information in the biomedical literature. Annals of Internal Medicine recently published a series dealing with the general problem of information management. The commentary that follows examines one area in which computers can be applied to our advantage-electronic exchange of information-and presents a practical example of using database searches.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , February 1988 , pp. 81 - 83
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1998

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