Universal patient disinfection as a tool for infection control: Rub-a-dub-dub, no need for a tub

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 274-276

  Peterson, Lance R ^a   Singh, Kamaljit ^b  

^a EVANSTON NORTHWESTERN HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORHEXIDINE GLUCONATE; DISINFECTANT AGENT; PIPERACILLIN; SOAP; TAZOBACTAM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BATH; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONTAMINATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISINFECTION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL HYGIENE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; CHLORHEXIDINE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; SKIN; SKIN CARE; SOAPS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 32644452352     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.166.3.274     Document Type: Editorial

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