Environmental cleaning intervention and risk of acquiring multidrug-resistant organisms from prior room occupants

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 171, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 491-494

  Datta, Rupak ^a   Platt, Richard ^b   Yokoe, Deborah S ^b   Huang, Susan S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLEANING; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISINFECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANING INTERVENTION; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL HYGIENE; HOSPITAL SUBDIVISIONS AND COMPONENTS; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INFECTION RISK; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY FAILURE; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NEOPLASM; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROOM OCCUPANT; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS INFECTION; DISINFECTANTS; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 79955130786     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.64     Document Type: Article

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