Maintaining the momentum of change: The role of the 2014 updates to the compendium in preventing healthcare-associated infections

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 460-463

  Septimus, Edward ^a   Yokoe, Deborah S ^b   Weinstein, Robert A ^c   Perl, Trish M ^d   Maragakis, Lisa L ^d   Berenholtz, Sean M ^e  

^a Americas Corporation Inc   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CATHETER INFECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NOTE; PATIENT GUIDANCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REIMBURSEMENT; SURGICAL INFECTION; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; BEHAVIOR; CHECKLIST; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPENDIUM; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH EDUCATION; KNOWLEDGE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TYPES OF ARTICLE; CROSS INFECTION; HOSPITAL; STANDARDS; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH;

CROSS INFECTION; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84898758552     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/675820     Document Type: Note

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