Failure to eradicate vancomycin-resistant enterococci in a university hospital and the cost of barrier precautions

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 647-652

  Lai, Kwan Kew ^a   Kelley, Anita L ^a   Melvin, Zita S ^a   Belliveau, Paul P ^a   Fontecchio, Sally A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CROSS INFECTION; ECONOMICS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY, 300 TO 499; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; MASSACHUSETTS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 0032161315     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/30141528     Document Type: Article

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