Baseline measure of alcohol-based skin preparation agents before 2011 National Quality Forum recommendation in a general surgery population

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1211-1214

  Talsma, AkkeNeel ^a   Galecki, Andrzej ^b   Chenoweth, Carol E ^c   Geun, HyoGeun ^d,e   Campbell, Darrell A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^e Dankook University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA; ANTISEPSIS; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COLON RESECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HERNIA; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTESTINE RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SURGICAL INFECTION; UNITED STATES;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ALCOHOLS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; ANTISEPSIS; APPENDECTOMY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COLECTOMY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HERNIORRHAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SKIN; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84885465984     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/673450     Document Type: Article

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