Sustained improvements in peripheral venous catheter care in non-intensive care units: A quasi-experimental controlled study of education and feedback

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 449-455

  Fakih, Mohamad G ^a   Jones, Karen ^a   Rey, Janice E ^a   Berriel Cass, Dorine ^a   Kalinicheva, Tatyana ^a   Szpunar, Susanna ^a   Saravolatz, Louis D ^a  

^a ST JOHN HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATHETER COMPLICATION; CATHETER DRESSING; CATHETER INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INFUSION; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; NURSE; NURSE TRAINING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHLEBITIS; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; RISK REDUCTION; TEACHING HOSPITAL; VEIN CATHETERIZATION;

CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; FEEDBACK; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84859307009     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/665322     Document Type: Article

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