Telehealth infection control: A movement toward best practice

Home Healthcare Nurse

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 319-323

  Suter, Paula ^a   Yueng, Carole ^b   Johnston, Donna ^c   Suter, W Newton ^d  

^a Baptist Home Health Network and 2020 Health Solutions

^b Home Health Network   (United States)

^c Baptist Home Health and Hospice   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; CROSS INFECTION; DISINFECTION; EQUIPMENT; FOMITE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLICY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; TELEMEDICINE; UNITED STATES;

BENCHMARKING; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; CROSS INFECTION; DISINFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FOMITES; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION CONTROL PRACTITIONERS; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUESTIONNAIRES; TELEMEDICINE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 68949094167     PISSN: 0884741X     EISSN: 15390713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NHH.0000356785.85750.32     Document Type: Article

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