Active surveillance culturing impacts methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus acquisition in a pediatric intensive care unit

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Holzmann Pazgal, Galit ^a   Monney, Charles ^b   Davis, Koya ^b   Wanger, Audrey ^a   Strobel, Nathaniel ^a   Zhong, Fengwei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL HERMANN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

active surveillance culturing; hand hygiene compliance; nosocomial acquisition; pediatric intensive care unit

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE NURSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TREND STUDY;

EID: 79960767672     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: 19473893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0b013e3181f39222     Document Type: Article

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