Effective cohorting and "superisolation" in a single intensive care unit in response to an outbreak of diverse multi-drug-resistant organisms

Surgical Infections

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 345-350

  Rosenberger, Laura H ^a   Hranjec, Tjasa ^a   Politano, Amani D ^a   Swenson, Brian R ^a   Metzger, Rosemarie ^a   Bonatti, Hugo ^a   Sawyer, Robert G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LENGTH OF STAY; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PROVIDENCIA RETTGERI; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; PATIENT ISOLATION;

EID: 80155179870     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: 15578674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2010.076     Document Type: Review

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