Strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections through hand hygiene

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 937-960

  Ellingson, Katherine ^a   Haas, Janet P ^b   Aiello, Allison E ^c   Kusek, Linda ^d   Maragakis, Lisa L ^e   Olmsted, Russell N ^f   Perencevich, Eli ^g,h   Polgreen, Philip M ^g   Schweizer, Marin L ^g,h   Trexler, Polly ^e   VanAmringe, Margaret ^d   Yokoe, Deborah S ⁱ  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c IL   (United States)

^d Joint Commission   (United States)

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

^f Saint Joseph Mercy Health System   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^h Veterans Administration   (United States)

ⁱ BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CHLORHEXIDINE; HAND SANITIZER; SOAP; TRICLOSAN;

ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; HAND WASHING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; IRRITANT DERMATITIS; MATERIALS HANDLING; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NOROVIRUS INFECTION; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PERIOPERATIVE NURSING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SCRUB; SURGICAL GLOVE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; CROSS INFECTION; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; DRY SKIN; GLOVE; INFLUENZA VIRUS; MICROBIOME; PRURITUS; RESPIRATORY VIRUS;

CROSS INFECTION; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HAND HYGIENE; HUMANS;

EID: 84902995837     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/677145     Document Type: Article

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