Intravascular catheter bloodstream infections: An effective and sustained hospital-wide prevention program over 8 years

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 187, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 551-554

  Collignon, Peter J ^a,b   Dreimanis, Dianne E ^a   Beckingham, Wendy D ^a   Roberts, Jan L ^a   Gardner, Anne ^a,c  

^a CANBERRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Townsville Health Service District   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CHLORHEXIDINE;

ARTERY CATHETER; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CANDIDIASIS; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DIALYSIS CATHETER; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERVENTION STUDY; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; KLEBSIELLA INFECTION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; NONHUMAN; PATIENT INFORMATION; PERIPHERALLY INSERTED CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; SWAN GANZ CATHETER; TEAMWORK; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TREND STUDY; CATHETERIZATION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; INDWELLING CATHETER; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS;

CATHETERIZATION; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY, 500 AND OVER; HUMANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS;

EID: 38449102067     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2007.tb01414.x     Document Type: Article

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