Unit based procedures: Impact on the incidence of nosocomial infections in the newborn intensive care unit

Newborn and Infant Nursing Reviews

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 38-45

  Polak, Judith D ^a,b   Ringler, Nicki ^a   Daugherty, Brenda ^a  

^a West Virginia University Children's Hospital   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 PROPANOL; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACITRACIN; CHLORHEXIDINE; EMOLLIENT AGENT; POVIDONE IODINE; XIPAMIDE;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTISEPSIS; BIRTH WEIGHT; CATHETER INFECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG MISUSE; DRUG USE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HAND WASHING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFECTION RISK; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MORBIDITY; NAIL; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PATIENT CARE; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SKIN CARE; UMBILICAL CORD;

EID: 1542378887     PISSN: 15273369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.nainr.2003.12.001     Document Type: Review

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