Hospital stay length as an effect modifi
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M. Delgado-Rodríguez; A. Bueno-Cavanillas; R. López-Gigosos; J. Dios Luna-Castil
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Article
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1990
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Springer
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English
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This paper addresses the problem of hospital stay length as a risk factor for nosocomial infection and as a modifier of the effect of other risk factors for hospital infection. Patients were selected form two cross-sectional studies done in two different seasons of 1986. Risk of infection rose fairl