Contact precautions: More is not necessarily better

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 213-221

  Dhar, Sorabh ^a,b   Marchaim, Dror ^c,d   Tansek, Ryan ^e   Chopra, Teena ^a   Yousuf, Adnan ^f   Bhargava, Ashish ^a   Martin, Emily T ^a   Talbot, Thomas R ^g   Johnson, Laura E ^h   Hingwe, Ameet ⁱ   Zuckerman, Jerry M ^j   Bono, Bartholomew R ^k   Shuman, Emily K ^l   Poblete, Jose ^m   Tran, Maryann ⁿ   Kulhanek, Grace ^o   Thyagarajan, Rama ^p   Nagappan, Vijayalakshmi ^o   Herzke, Carrie ^p   Perl, Trish M ^p   Kaye, Keith S ^a   more..

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f Louis A Memorial Hospital   (United States)

^g VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

ⁱ BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^j ALBERT EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^k BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^m SUMMA Health   (United States)

ⁿ MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o Oakwood Healthcare Inc   (United States)

^p DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS INFECTION; HAND WASHING; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UTILIZATION;

CROSS INFECTION; GLOVES, PROTECTIVE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HAND HYGIENE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; PATIENT ISOLATION; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING;

EID: 84893900732     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/675294     Document Type: Article

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