Impact of preoperative MRSA screening and decolonization on hospital-acquired MRSA burden infection

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 471, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2367-2371

  Mehta, Sapna ^a   Hadley, Scott ^b   Hutzler, Lorraine ^b   Slover, James ^b   Phillips, Michael ^a   Bosco, Joseph A ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NYU HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORHEXIDINE; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CLEARANCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISINFECTION; ELECTIVE SURGERY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RATE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST;

EID: 84879107136     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-013-2848-3     Document Type: Article

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