Daily disinfection of high-touch surfaces in isolation rooms to reduce contamination of healthcare workers' hands

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1039-1042

  Kundrapu, Sirsha ^a   Sunkesula, Venkata ^a   Jury, Lucy A ^a   Sitzlar, Brett M ^b   Donskey, Curtis J ^a,b  

^a LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISINFECTANT AGENT; PERACETIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISINFECTION; GLOVE; HAND; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HOSPITAL HYGIENE; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HOSPITAL SUBDIVISIONS AND COMPONENTS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

AGED; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; DISINFECTION; HAND HYGIENE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OHIO; PATIENT ISOLATION; PATIENTS' ROOMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 84866166661     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/667730     Document Type: Article

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