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Educational Needs and Opportunities for the Hospital Epidemiologist

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Louise M. Dembry  and
Walter J. Hierholzer Jr
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Abstract

The role of the hospital epidemiologist has changed substantially over the last 30 years as medical care has become more complex. The hospital epidemiologist needs training in methods for sur veillance, prevention, and control of nosocomial infections. The hospital epidemiologist also must know how to apply these methods to other areas, including the epidemiology of noninfectious adverse out-comes of medical care. Training in hospital epidemiology should be a defined part of every infectious disease fellowship training program. Ancillary and additional training is available from several sources.

Type
Practical Healthcare Epidemiology
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , March 1996 , pp. 188 - 192
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1996

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