Impact of enhanced infection control at 2 neonatal intensive care units in the Philippines

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-21

  Gill, Christopher J ^a,b   Mantaring, Jose B V ^e   Macleod, William B ^a   Mendoza, Myrna ^e   Mendoza, Sookee ^b   Huskins, W Charles ^d   Goldmann, Donald A ^c   Hamer, Davidson H ^a,b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^e PHILIPPINE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Philippines)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CEFTAZIDIME; GENTAMICIN;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENTEROBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES CULTURE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HAND WASHING; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INFECTION CONTROL; KLEBSIELLA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NEWBORN SEPSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHILIPPINES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUALITY CONTROL; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; RISK FACTOR; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CARRIER STATE; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HANDWASHING; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; PHILIPPINES; SEPSIS;

EID: 57749097798     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/594120     Document Type: Article

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