Feasibility and efficacy of infection-control interventions to reduce the number of nosocomial infections and drug-resistant microorganisms in developing countries: What else do we need?

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 22-24

  Apisarnthanarak, Anucha ^a   Fraser, Victoria J ^b  

^a THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Thailand)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; GENTAMICIN; PENICILLIN G;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HAND WASHING; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NOTE; NURSE PATIENT RATIO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PHILIPPINES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTION CONTROL;

EID: 57749122154     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/594121     Document Type: Note

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