Survey of infection control programs in a large national healthcare system

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1401-1403

  Talbot, Thomas R ^a,g   Tejedor, Sheri Chernetsky ^e   Greevy, Robert A ^a   Burgess, Hayley ^c   Williams, Mark V ^e,f   Deshpande, Jayant K ^a   McFadden, Patsy ^d   Weinger, Matthew B ^a   Englebright, Jane ^c   Dittus, Robert S ^a,b   Speroff, Theodore ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL CORPORATION OF AMERICA   (United States)

^d CENTENNIAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATHETER INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS INFECTION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

CROSS INFECTION; DATA COLLECTION; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION CONTROL PRACTITIONERS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38449118593     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/523867     Document Type: Article

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