Reduction in vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus and Clostridium difficile infections following change to tympanic thermometers

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 333-336

  Brooks, Steven ^a   Khan, Ashraf ^a   Stoica, Dorin ^a,d   Griffith, Jennylyn ^a   Friedeman, Les ^a   Mukherji, Rajat ^a   Hameed, Rizwanullah ^a   Schupf, Nicole ^b,c  

^a KINGSBROOK JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE INSTITUTE FOR BASIC RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES   (United States)

^c Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^d JAMAICA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROCOCCUS; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MICROBIOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; THERMOMETER; UNITED STATES;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY, 300 TO 499; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; THERMOMETERS; UNITED STATES; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 0032058772     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/30141374     Document Type: Article

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