Implementation of an industrial systems-engineering approach to reduce the incidence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 702-708

  Muder, Robert R ^a,b   Cunningham, Candace ^a   McCray, Ellesha ^a   Squier, Cheryl ^a   Perreiah, Peter ^c   Jain, Rajiv ^b   Sinkowitz Cochran, Ronda L ^d   Jernigan, John A ^d  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiative   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; ENGINEERING; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PROPHYLAXIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AUTOMOBILES; CROSS INFECTION; CULTURE MEDIA; HANDWASHING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDUSTRY; INFECTION CONTROL; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; PATIENT ISOLATION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; UNIVERSAL PRECAUTIONS;

EID: 50949119226     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/589981     Document Type: Article

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