Nurse-driven quality improvement interventions to reduce hospital-acquired infection in the NICU

Advances in Neonatal Care

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 154-163

  Ceballos, Kirtley ^a   Waterman, Kari ^b   Hulett, Teresa ^b   Makic, Mary Beth Flynn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Central line associated blood stream infection; Quality improvement; Ventilator associated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOODBORNE BACTERIUM; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS INFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTERVENTION STUDY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NURSE ATTITUDE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARD; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

ADULT; BLOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); CROSS INFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MALE; NURSE'S ROLE; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; PRIMARY PREVENTION; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84879247385     PISSN: 15360903     EISSN: 15360911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ANC.0b013e318285fe70     Document Type: Article

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