An environmental disinfection odyssey: Evaluation of sequential interventions to improve disinfection of Clostridium difficile isolation rooms

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 5 SPL, 2013, Pages 459-465

  Sitzlar, Brett ^a   Deshpande, Abhishek ^a   Fertelli, Dennis ^a   Kundrapu, Sirisha ^b   Sethi, Ajay K ^c   Donskey, Curtis J ^a,b  

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

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ARTICLE; CLEANING; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; DISINFECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CROSS INFECTION; DISINFECTION; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FLUORESCENT DYES; FOMITES; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; PATIENT ISOLATION; PATIENTS' ROOMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 84876074013     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/670217     Document Type: Article

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