New approaches to decontamination of rooms after patients are discharged

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 515-517

  Boyce, John M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF SAINT RAPHAEL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; CHLORINE DIOXIDE; DISINFECTANT AGENT; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; HYPOCHLORITE; PARAFORMALDEHYDE; PHENOL DERIVATIVE;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLEANING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISINFECTION; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG EFFICACY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; MEDICAL PRACTICE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NOTE; PATHOGENESIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; VAPORIZATION; WARD; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

AEROSOLS; BACILLUS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CROSS INFECTION; DECONTAMINATION; DISINFECTANTS; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; PATIENTS' ROOMS; SODIUM HYPOCHLORITE; SPORES, BACTERIAL; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 67651098975     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/598999     Document Type: Note

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