Beyond the hawthorne effect: Reduction of Clostridium difficile environmental contamination through active intervention to improve cleaning practices

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 5 SPL, 2013, Pages 524-526

  Guerrero, Dubert M ^a   Carling, Philip C ^b,c   Jury, Lucy A ^d   Ponnada, Suresh ^d   Nerandzic, Michelle M ^d   Donskey, Curtis J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^b SANFORD HEALTH   (United States)

^c Carney Hospital   (United States)

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

^e CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEACHING AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLEANING; CLINICAL SUPERVISION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; DISINFECTION; FISHER EXACT TEST; HAWTHORNE EFFECT; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; NONHUMAN;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DISINFECTION; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEEDBACK; HOUSEKEEPING, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84876076950     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/670213     Document Type: Article

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