CE Best-practice interventions: Keeping central line infection at bay

Nursing

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 58-63

  Hadaway, Lynn C ^a  

^a Lynn Hadaway Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CHLORHEXIDINE; CHLORHEXIDINE GLUCONATE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; TOPICAL ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; CROSS INFECTION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METHODOLOGY; NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SKIN CARE; STANDARD;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; BENCHMARKING; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CHLORHEXIDINE; CROSS INFECTION; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SKIN CARE;

EID: 33646437845     PISSN: 03604039     EISSN: 15388689     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00152193-200604000-00042     Document Type: Review

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