Automated Detection of Infectious Disease Outbreaks in Hospitals: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Susan Huang and colleagues describe an automated statistical software, WHONET-SaTScan, its application in a hospital, and the potential it has to identify hospital infection clusters that had escaped routine detection.

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