Managing multidrug-resistant organisms in home care and hospice: Surveillance, prevention, and control

Home Healthcare Nurse

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 580-586

  McGoldrick, Mary ^a   Rhinehart, Emily ^b  

^a Home Health Systems Inc   (United States)

^b AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG UTILIZATION; EDUCATION; EPIDEMIC; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SURVEY; HOME CARE; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; DRUG UTILIZATION; HANDWASHING; HEALTH PLANNING GUIDELINES; HOME CARE SERVICES; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; NURSING STAFF; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSAL PRECAUTIONS;

EID: 37349085434     PISSN: 0884741X     EISSN: 15390713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NHH.0000296115.41320.f8     Document Type: Review

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