Environmental cleaning and healthcare-associated infections

Healthcare Papers

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 38-43

  Jansen, Irene ^a   Murphy, Janice ^b  

^a Health Care Canadian Union of Public Employees   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANADA; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; EPIDEMIC; FUNDING; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; NOTE; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME;

EID: 67650783153     PISSN: 1488917X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12927/hcpap.2009.20925     Document Type: Note

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