The network approach for prevention of healthcare-associated infections: Long-term effect of participation in the Duke Infection Control Outreach Network

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 315-322

  Anderson, Deverick J ^a   Miller, Becky A ^a   Chen, Luke F ^a   Adcock, Linda H ^a   Cook, Evelyn ^a   Cromer, A Lynn ^a   Louis, Susan ^a   Thacker II, Paul A ^a   Sexton, Daniel J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOODBORNE BACTERIUM; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CATHETER INFECTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DEVICE INFECTION; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORBIDITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBLISHING; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; WARD;

BACTEREMIA; BLOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CATHETERIZATION; CROSS INFECTION; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHYSICIANS; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TIME FACTORS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 79952580786     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/658940     Document Type: Article

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