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Data on CDC and FDA discussed by J. Iavindrasana and colleagues

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, October 31st, 2010

Current study results from the report, 'Measuring the effectiveness of hospital-acquired infection prevention,' have been published. According to recent research published in the journal Studies In Health Technology and Informatics, "This article deals with data on nosocomial infections acquired in the Geneva University Hospitals. Goal of the work is to derive a model from a hospital-acquired infection (HAI) prevalence survey of year Y and apply them to a prevalence survey of years Y+1, Y+2."

"This analysis permits to evaluate the effectiveness of preventive measures taken after the prevalence survey in year Y. It also analyzes the robustness of the SVM algorithm...

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