Clinical utility and economic impact of introducing a bowel management system

Journal of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 664-670

  Echols, Jane ^a   Friedman, Bruce C ^a,b   Mullins, Robert F ^a   Hassan, Zaheed ^a   Shaver, Joseph R ^a   Brandigi, Claus ^a   Wilson, Joan ^a   Cox, Laura ^a  

^a Doctors Hospital   (United States)

^b Joseph M Still Burn Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BURN; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS INFECTION; DECISION TREE; DIGESTIVE TRACT INTUBATION; ECONOMICS; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LAUNDRY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN CARE; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND DRAINAGE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BURN UNITS; BURNS; COST OF ILLNESS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DECISION TREES; DRAINAGE; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; LAUNDERING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN CARE; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 36348953147     PISSN: 10715754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.WON.0000300279.82262.07     Document Type: Article

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