Reducing bloodstream infections in an outpatient hemodialysis center - New Jersey, 2008-2011

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 61, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 169-173

  Downham, Gemma ^a   Jones, Erin ^a   Peterson, Pamela ^a   Yaser Mourad, M ^a   Lindberg, Curt ^b   Patel, Priti R ^c   Kallen, Alexander J ^c  

^a AtlantiCare   (United States)

^b BILLINGS CLINIC   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTEREMIA; CATHETERIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERVENTION STUDY; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; OUTPATIENT; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; BACTEREMIA; CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; HYGIENE; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERVENTION STUDIES; NEW JERSEY; OUTPATIENTS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 84858599310     PISSN: 01492195     EISSN: 1545861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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