Influenza Infection Screening Tools Fail to Accurately Predict Influenza Status for Hospitalized Patients During Pandemic H1N1 Influenza Season

BACKGROUND: Following the severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak in 2003, hospitals have been mandated to use infection screening questionnaires to determine which patients have infectious respiratory illness and, therefore, require isolation precautions. Despite widespread use of symptom-based...

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Main Authors: Sunita Mulpuru, Virginia R Roth, Nadine Lawrence, Alan J Forster
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2013-01-01
Series:Canadian Respiratory Journal
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/762140
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