Estimated strip wastage from glucose meter infection control recommendations

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 414, Issue , 2012, Pages 91-92

  Nichols, James H ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; DISINFECTION; FEMALE; HAND WASHING; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; LETTER; MALE; MATERIALS HANDLING; NEWBORN; PATIENT CARE; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SCHOOL CHILD; VERY ELDERLY; WASTE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; ECONOMICS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM;

BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD GLUCOSE SELF-MONITORING; HUMANS; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84866299873     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: 18733492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2012.08.007     Document Type: Letter

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