The development and use of tools for monitoring the occurrence of surgical wound infections
- 1 February 2007
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Journal of the Operational Research Society
- Vol. 58 (2), 228-234
- https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602223
Abstract
Journal of the Operational Research Society (JORS) is the world's longest established OR journal and an official journal of The OR Society. It is the aim of the Journal to present papers which are relevant to practitioners, researchers, teachers, students and consumers of operational research, and which cover the theory, practice, history or methodology of OR.This publication has 28 references indexed in Scilit:
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