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. 2022 Mar 25;2(1):e49.
doi: 10.1017/ash.2022.11. eCollection 2022.

Ward-level risk factors associated with nosocomial coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreaks: A matched case-control study

Reto Thoma  1 , Philipp Kohler  1 , Sabine Haller  1 , Jasmin Maenner  1 , Matthias Schlegel  1 , Domenica Flury  1
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Ward-level risk factors associated with nosocomial coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreaks: A matched case-control study

Reto Thoma et al. Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. .
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Fig. 1.
Comparison of case and control wards. Between July and December 2020, 9 Outbreak and 9 control wards were matched for appropriate number of beds. The same period of investigation was chosen retrospectively for outbreak and control wards.
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