Optimum outlier model for potential improvement of environmental cleaning and disinfection

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 721-723

  Rupp, Mark E ^a,b   Huerta, Tomas ^a   Cavalier, R J ^a   Lyden, Elizabeth ^c   Van Schooneveld, Trevor ^a,b   Carling, Philip ^d   Smith, Philip W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLEANING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISINFECTION; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; PATIENT CARE; CROSS INFECTION; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; CROSS INFECTION; DISINFECTION; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; HOUSEKEEPING, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT;

EID: 84899817342     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/676431     Document Type: Article

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