Keeping needleless connectors clean, part 1

Nursing

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 18-19

  Moureau, Nancy L ^a,b   Dawson, Robert B ^c,d  

^a PICC Excellence Inc   (United States)

^b Greenville (SC) Memorial Hospital   (United States)

^c Concord ^*  (United States)

^d PICC Academy of Nashua NH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOPICAL ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DISINFECTION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NURSING; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; STATISTICS;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; BENCHMARKING; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DISINFECTION; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS;

EID: 77951082503     PISSN: 03604039     EISSN: 15388689     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NURSE.0000371119.85145.99     Document Type: Short Survey

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