Ward assessment of SmartIdeas Project: Bringing source isolation to the patient

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 103-107

  Moore, G ^a   Ali, S ^a   FitzGerald, G ^a   Muzslay, M ^a   Atkinson, S ^b   Smith, S ^b   Cryer, P ^c   Gush, C ^c   Wilson, A P R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Health ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hospital acquired infection; Isolation; MRSA

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; GENERAL MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; HAND WASHING; HOSPITAL HYGIENE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL PLANNING; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; PATIENT CARE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUESTIONNAIRE; SANITATION; WARD;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HANDWASHING; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ISOLATION; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 77956174560     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2010.04.017     Document Type: Article

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