Controlling methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by stepwise implementation of preventive strategies in a university hospital: impact of a link-nurse system on the basis of multidisciplinary approaches

American Journal of Infection Control

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 115-121

  Miyachi, Hayato ^a,b   Furuya, Hiroyuki ^c   Umezawa, Kazuo ^d   Itoh, Yumiko ^b   Ohshima, Toshio ^b   Miyamoto, Motoaki ^b   Asai, Satomi ^a,b  

^a Nagoya University   (Japan)

^b Infection Control Office   (Japan)

^c Basic Clinical Science and Public Health ^*  (Japan)

^d TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; HAND WASHING; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; JAPAN; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NURSE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

CROSS INFECTION; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HANDWASHING; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 33847182070     PISSN: 01966553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2006.09.003     Document Type: Article

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