Device-related sources of bacteraemia in English hospitals - Opportunities for the prevention of hospital-acquired bacteraemia

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 46-57

  Coello, R ^a   Charlett, A ^a   Ward, V ^a   Wilson, J ^a   Pearson, A ^a   Sedgwick, J ^a   Borriello, P ^b  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRAL PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hospital acquired bacteraemia; Prevention; Sources

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CATHETERIZATION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GERIATRICS; HEMATOLOGY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL SERVICE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEPHROLOGY; ONCOLOGY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL WARD; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNITED KINGDOM; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; UROLOGY;

BACTEREMIA; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CROSS INFECTION; ENGLAND; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; URINARY CATHETERIZATION;

EID: 0347589753     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jhin.2002.1349     Document Type: Article

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