Blood culture contamination: A randomized trial evaluating the comparative effectiveness of 3 skin antiseptic interventions

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 15-21

  Washer, Laraine L ^a,b   Chenoweth, Carol ^a,b   Kim, Hae Won ^a   Rogers, Mary A M ^a   Malani, Anurag N ^c   Riddell, James ^a   Kuhn, Latoya ^d   Noeyack, Bernard ^b   Neusius, Harry ^b   Newton, Duane W ^b   Saint, Sanjay ^a,d   Flanders, Scott A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c ST JOSEPH MERCY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d VA ANN ARBOR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 PROPANOL; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CHLORHEXIDINE GLUCONATE; IODINE; POVIDONE IODINE;

ADULT; AEROBIC BACTERIUM; AGED; ANTISEPSIS; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTEROIDES; BLOOD CULTURE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROCOCCUS; NEOPLASM; PHLEBOTOMY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SKIN; STREPTOCOCCUS; SURGICAL PATIENT;

2-PROPANOL; AGED; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; ANTISEPSIS; CHLORHEXIDINE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; IODINE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOTOMY; POVIDONE-IODINE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SKIN;

EID: 84870892407     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/668777     Document Type: Article

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