Follow-up and management of patients exposed to a flawed automated endoscope washer-disinfector in a digestive diseases unit

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 89-92

  Vanhems, Philippe ^a   Gayet Ageron, Angèle ^a   Ponchon, Thierry ^a   Bernet, Claude ^a   Chayvialle, Jean Alain ^a   Chemorin, Christine ^a   Morandat, Léone ^a   Bibollet, Marie Ange ^a   Chevallier, Philippe ^a   Ritter, Jacques ^a   Fabry, Jacques ^a  

^a EDOUARD HERRIOT HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISINFECTION; ENDOSCOPE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; ADULT; AGED; CROSS INFECTION; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPE; INFECTION CONTROL; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS INFECTION; ENDOSCOPES, GASTROINTESTINAL; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 33646459362     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/500004     Document Type: Article

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