Decreasing operating room environmental pathogen contamination through improved cleaning practice

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 897-904

  Silvia Munoz Price, L ^a,b,c   Birnbach, David J ^a,b   Lubarsky, David A ^a   Arheart, Kristopher L ^b   Fajardo Aquino, Yovanit ^c   Rosalsky, Mara ^c   Cleary, Timothy ^a   DePascale, Dennise ^c   Coro, Gabriel ^c   Namias, Nicholas ^a   Carling, Philip ^d  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLEANING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FOLLOW UP; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM STAINING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL BED; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NONHUMAN; NURSING; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OPERATING ROOM; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAMPLE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

DISINFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEEDBACK; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; LOGISTIC MODELS; OPERATING ROOMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 84864911551     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/667381     Document Type: Article

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