RT Journal
A1 Diekema DJ
T1 PRactical healthcare epidemiology
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2010
FD July 21
VO 304
IS 3
SP 352
OP 355
DO 10.1001/jama.2010.999
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2010.999
AB 
The field of health care epidemiology is undergoing rapid and exciting change. New technologies for surveillance and prevention, increased public accountability, and the drive to achieve health care–associated infection rates that approach zero represent new challenges to those on the front lines of patient safety. Such rapid change also risks making any health care epidemiology textbook seem out of date as soon as it is published. Fortunately, the editors and authors of the new third edition of Practical Healthcare Epidemiology have produced a text that covers both the basics of infection prevention and the most important recent developments.