Cultivating quality: Reducing rates of catheter-associated urinary tract infection

American Journal of Nursing

Volumn 110, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 40-45

  Wenger, Joyce E ^a  

^a LANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; CATHETER INFECTION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CROSS INFECTION; EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; NURSING; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; UNITED STATES;

CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PENNSYLVANIA; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; URINARY CATHETERIZATION;

EID: 77955326739     PISSN: 0002936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NAJ.0000387691.47746.b5     Document Type: Article

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