Do Active Surveillance and Contact Precautions Reduce MRSA Acquisition? A Prospective Interrupted Time Series

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Marshall, Caroline ^a   Richards, Michael ^a   McBryde, Emma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 84875347893     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058112     Document Type: Article

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