Prevention and treatment of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus colonization in the ICU: A process of care that should be considered mandatory

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 477-480

  Boyer, Anthony F ^a   Kollef, Marin H ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CHLORHEXIDINE; POVIDONE IODINE; PSEUDOMONIC ACID;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CATHETER INFECTION; CONCURRENT INFECTION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; COST; DECUBITUS; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDIASTINITIS; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT; REVIEW; SURGICAL INFECTION; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WOUND; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 84893304723     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3182a84cb6     Document Type: Review

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