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Analysis of Costs Attributable to an Outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome at a French Hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Yazdan Yazdanpanah ,
Agnesk Daval ,
Serge Alfandari ,
Xavier Lenne ,
Delphine Lavoine ,
Isabelle Verin ,
Hugues Georges ,
Olivier Leroy ,
Eric Senneville  and
Benoit Guery
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Yazdan Yazdanpanah*
Affiliation:
Service Universitaire des Maladies Infectieuses et du Voyageur, Centre Hospitalier de Tourcoing, Tourcoing, France Equipe d'Acceuil 2694, Faculté de Medecine de Lille, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité de Recherche Associée 362, Lille, France Laboratoire de Recherches Éxonomiques et Sociales, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité de Recherche Associée 362, Lille, France
Agnesk Daval
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Recherches Éxonomiques et Sociales, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité de Recherche Associée 362, Lille, France
Serge Alfandari
Affiliation:
Service Universitaire de Réanimation et Maladies Infectieuses, Centre Hospitalier de Tourcoing, Tourcoing, France
Xavier Lenne
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Recherches Éxonomiques et Sociales, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité de Recherche Associée 362, Lille, France
Delphine Lavoine
Affiliation:
Hospital Administration, Centre Hospitalier de Tourcoing, Tourcoing, France
Isabelle Verin
Affiliation:
Department d'Informatique Médicale, Centre Hospitalier de Tourcoing, Tourcoing, France
Hugues Georges
Affiliation:
Service Universitaire de Réanimation et Maladies Infectieuses, Centre Hospitalier de Tourcoing, Tourcoing, France
Olivier Leroy
Affiliation:
Service Universitaire de Réanimation et Maladies Infectieuses, Centre Hospitalier de Tourcoing, Tourcoing, France
Eric Senneville
Affiliation:
Service Universitaire des Maladies Infectieuses et du Voyageur, Centre Hospitalier de Tourcoing, Tourcoing, France
Benoit Guery
Affiliation:
Service Universitaire de Réanimation et Maladies Infectieuses, Centre Hospitalier de Tourcoing, Tourcoing, France
Benoit Dervaux
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Recherches Éxonomiques et Sociales, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité de Recherche Associée 362, Lille, France
Y. Mouton
Affiliation:
Service Universitaire des Maladies Infectieuses et du Voyageur, Centre Hospitalier de Tourcoing, Tourcoing, France
*
Service Universitaire des Maladies Infectieuses et du Voyageur, Centre Hospitalier de Tourcoing, 135, Rue du Président Coty, B.P.619, F 59208 Tourcoing, France ([email protected])
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 27 , Issue 11 , November 2006 , pp. 1282 - 1285
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2006

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