The evolving world of healthcare-associated bloodstream infection surveillance and prevention: Is your system as good as you think?

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 236-238

  Jarvis, William R ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CULTURE; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; CROSS INFECTION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; INDWELLING CATHETER; INFORMATION SYSTEM; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NOTE; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; WORK;

CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CROSS INFECTION; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION CONTROL PRACTITIONERS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; JOB DESCRIPTION; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035999818     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502041     Document Type: Editorial

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