Reduction of the nosocomial meticillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus incidence density by a regionwide search and follow-strategy in forty German hospitals of the EUREGIO, 2009 to 2011

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 18, Issue 36, 2013, Pages

  Jurke, A ^a   Kock R ^b   Becker, K ^b   Thole, S ^a   Hendrix, R ^c   Rossen, J ^c   Daniels Haardt, I ^a   Friedrich, A W ^b  

^a NRW Institute of Health and Work   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GERMANY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MASS SCREENING; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MORBIDITY; PREVALENCE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TIME;

CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MASS SCREENING; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84884243918     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES2013.18.36.20579     Document Type: Article

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