Improving healthcare environmental cleaning and disinfection: Current and evolving issues

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 5 SPL, 2013, Pages 507-513

  Carling, Philip C ^a   Huang, Susan S ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN PEROXIDE;

BIOLUMINESCENCE; CLEANING; CONTAMINATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISINFECTION; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; NOTE; PATHOGENESIS; POLICY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; ULTRAVIOLET C RADIATION;

DISINFECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEEDBACK; GASES; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HOUSEKEEPING, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; PATIENTS' ROOMS; QUALITY CONTROL; RESEARCH DESIGN; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 84876074035     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/670222     Document Type: Note

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