Trial of universal gloving with emollient-impregnated gloves to promote skin health and prevent the transmission of multidrug-resistant organisms in a surgical intensive care unit

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 491-497

  Bearman, Gonzalo ^a   Rosato, Adriana E ^a   Duane, Therese M ^a   Elam, Kara ^a   Sanogo, Kakotan ^a   Haner, Cheryl ^a   Kazlova, Valentina ^a   Edmond, Michael B ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMOLLIENT AGENT;

ARTICLE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; DEVICE INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; SKIN PROTECTION; UNIVERSAL GLOVING; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; EMOLLIENTS; ENTEROCOCCUS; GLOVES, PROTECTIVE; GLOVES, SURGICAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HANDWASHING; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SKIN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 77951056796     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/651671     Document Type: Article

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