The epic project: Updating the evidence base for national evidence-based guidelines for preventing healthcare-associated infections in NHS hospitals in England. A report with recommendations [3]

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 373-374

  Pellowe, Carol ^a   Pratt, R ^a   Loveday, H ^a   Harper, P ^a   Robinson, N ^a   Jones, S R L J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CHLORHEXIDINE GLUCONATE; HEPARIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CROSS INFECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HAND WASHING; HOSPITAL HYGIENE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; LETTER; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SEPTICEMIA; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN DECONTAMINATION; UNITED KINGDOM; URINE CATHETER;

CROSS INFECTION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GREAT BRITAIN; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 14744282596     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2004.11.007     Document Type: Letter

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3. M.L. Pearson Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. Guideline for prevention of intravascular-device-related infections Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 17 1996 438-473
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