[Multidisciplinary Team Meeting dedicated to geriatric oncology: Decisions and four month follow-up].

Introduction: MTDM dedicated to geriatric oncology are held at the E. Herriot hospital in Lyon. They bring together oncologist and geriatrician to optimize, through their complementary expertise, the care plan for elderly cancer patients.

Combining high-resolution contact data with virological data to investigate influenza transmission in a tertiary care hospital.

Objective: Contact patterns and microbiological data contribute to a detailed understanding of infectious disease transmission. We explored the automated collection of high-resolution contact data by wearable sensors combined with virological data to investigate influenza transmission among patients and healthcare workers in a geriatric unit.

Design: Proof-of-concept observational study.

Five years of hospital based surveillance of influenza-like illness and influenza in a short-stay geriatric unit.

Background: Data on influenza in the healthcare setting are often based on retrospective investigations of outbreaks and a few studies described influenza during several consecutive seasons.The aim of the present work is to report data on influenza like illness (ILI) and influenza from 5-year prospective surveillance in a short-stay geriatrics unit.

Findings: A short stay geriatrics unit underwent 5 years of ILI surveillance from November 2004 to March 2009, with the aim of describing ILI in a non-outbreak context.

Estimating potential infection transmission routes in hospital wards using wearable proximity sensors.

Background: Contacts between patients, patients and health care workers (HCWs) and among HCWs represent one of the important routes of transmission of hospital-acquired infections (HAI). A detailed description and quantification of contacts in hospitals provides key information for HAIs epidemiology and for the design and validation of control measures.

Methods And Findings: We used wearable sensors to detect close-range interactions ("contacts") between individuals in the geriatric unit of a university hospital.