Risk of hand or glove contamination after contact with patients colonized with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus or the colonized patients' environment

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 149-154

  Hayden, Mary K ^a   Blom, Donald W ^a   Lyle, Elizabeth A ^a   Moore, Charity G ^c   Weinstein, Robert A ^a,b  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Jr Hospital of Cook County   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CAREGIVER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTAMINATION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GLOVE; HAND; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL BED; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MONITORING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; RISK; SAMPLE; SKIN; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TOUCH; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

ADULT; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PROFESSIONAL-TO-PATIENT; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; GLOVES, PROTECTIVE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HAND; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; SKIN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 39549090391     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/524331     Document Type: Article

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