Tracking Perinatal Infection: Is It Safe to Launder Your Scrubs at Home?

MCN The American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 195-197

  Kiehl, Ermalynn ^a   Wallace, Ruth ^b   Warren, Connie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLOTHING; COST CONTROL; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; LAUNDRY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN NURSING; PILOT STUDY; SAFETY;

CLOTHING; COST SAVINGS; CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LAUNDERING; NEONATAL NURSING; PILOT PROJECTS; SAFETY;

EID: 0031181576     PISSN: 0361929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005721-199707000-00007     Document Type: Article

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