MRSA - global threat and personal disaster: Patients' experiences

International Nursing Review

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 47-53

  Andersson, H ^a,b   Lindholm, C ^c,d,e   Fossum, B ^a,b  

^a DANDERYD HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b SOPHIAHEMMET UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Sweden)

^c Red Cross University College   (Sweden)

^d KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Content analysis; Infection; Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus; MRSA; Patient experience; Qualitative interviews; Sweden; Wounds

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; SWEDEN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SWEDEN;

EID: 79551489049     PISSN: 00208132     EISSN: 14667657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-7657.2010.00833.x     Document Type: Article

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