TY  - JOUR
T1  - PRactical healthcare epidemiology
AU  - Diekema DJ
Y1  - 2010/07/21
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2010.999
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 352
EP  - 355
VL  - 304
IS  - 3
N2  - 
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 Such rapid change also risks making any health care epidemiology textbook seem out of date as soon as it is published.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.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2010.999
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2010.999
ER  -