The relationship between hospital infection surveillance and control activities and antibiotic-resistant pathogen rates

American Journal of Infection Control

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-5

  Zoutman, Dick E ^a   Ford, B Douglas ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; METICILLIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NURSE; PHYSICIAN; REVIEW; TEACHING HOSPITAL; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; ARTICLE; CANADA; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS; HOSPITAL; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STATISTICS;

CANADA; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CROSS INFECTION; DATA COLLECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 15544381425     PISSN: 01966553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2004.09.003     Document Type: Article

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