Effect of daily chlorhexidine bathing on hospital-acquired infection

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 368, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 533-542

  Climo, Michael W ^a,b   Yokoe, Deborah S ^c   Warren, David K ^d   Perl, Trish M ^e   Bolon, Maureen ^f   Herwaldt, Loreen A ^h   Weinstein, Robert A ^g   Sepkowitz, Kent A ⁱ   Jernigan, John A ^j   Sanogo, Kakotan ^b   Wong, Edward S ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Department of Medicine   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

ⁱ MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^j CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORHEXIDINE GLUCONATE;

ACINETOBACTER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CANDIDA; CATHETER INFECTION; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DISINFECTION; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ESCHERICHIA; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RATE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KLEBSIELLA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SERRATIA; SKIN MANIFESTATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STENOTROPHOMONAS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

EID: 84873512888     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1113849     Document Type: Article

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