Limiting the spread of highly resistant hospital-acquired microorganisms via critical care transfers: A simulation study

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1633-1640

  Karkada, Umanka H ^a   Adamic, Lada A ^a   Kahn, Jeremy M ^b   Iwashyna, Theodore J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial resistance; Critical care; Hospital acquired infections; Medicare; Networks; Patient transfers

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HOSPITAL ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; HOSPITAL HYGIENE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICARE; MICROBIAL GROWTH; PATIENT TRANSPORT; SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; HUMANS; PATIENT TRANSFER;

EID: 80054869145     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-011-2341-y     Document Type: Article

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