Colonised and isolated: A qualitative metasynthesis of patients' experiences of being infected with multiple drug resistant organisms and subsequent isolation

Healthcare Infection

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 147-155

  Mutsonziwa, Gift Alexander ^a   Green, Jennifer ^b  

^a University of Sydney ^*  (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONCEPT ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STAFF TRAINING; STIGMA;

EID: 84855880425     PISSN: 18355617     EISSN: 18355625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/HI11020     Document Type: Article

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