The efficacy of daily bathing with chlorhexidine for reducing healthcare-associated bloodstream infections: A meta-analysis

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 257-267

  O'Horo, John C ^a   Silva, Germana L M ^b   Silvia Munoz Price, L ^c   Safdar, Nasia ^d  

^a Aurora Healthcare Metro ^*  (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORHEXIDINE;

BATH; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; DRUG COST; DRUG ERUPTION; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATED BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; META ANALYSIS; MOUTH HYGIENE; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SKIN REDNESS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; BATHS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CHLORHEXIDINE; CROSS INFECTION; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENTS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SEPSIS;

EID: 84856986704     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/664496     Document Type: Review

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