lundi 22 octobre 2012

1,000 outbreaks of gastroenteritis in nursing homes a year - norovirus

1,000 outbreaks of gastroenteritis in nursing homes a year - UPI.com

More than 1,000 outbreaks of acute gastroenteritis are reported by U.S. nursing homes annually, but this is only a fraction of the cases, researchers say.
Tarak K. Trivedi, a fourth year medical student at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, and colleagues conducted a study to assess the association between norovirus outbreaks and excess all-cause hospitalization and mortality in nursing homes.

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