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CDC’s Research Program on Hospital-Acquired Infections (HAIs) Minimizes Airborne Transmission

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. This post originated in a valiant but doomed effort to determine whether modes of transmission (airborne, fomite, etc.) could be shoehorned into ICD-10-CM (International Classification of Diseases, Clinical Modification)[1], coded as Y95 (“Nosocomial condition,” where nosocomial is what we said before “Hospital Acquired Infection” (HAI) became a thing). My tentative […]

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