Infection prevention practices in neonatal intensive care units reporting to the national healthcare safety network

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1126-1132

  Hocevar, Susan N ^a,b   Lessa, Fernanda C ^a   Gallagher, Lauren ^c   Conover, Craig ^c   Gorwitz, Rachel ^a   Iwamoto, Martha ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

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

^c ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CHLORHEXIDINE GLUCONATE; POVIDONE IODINE; PSEUDOMONIC ACID;

AGE; ARTICLE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CATHETER INFECTION; CATHETERIZATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; BACTEREMIA; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; INFECTION CONTROL; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NEWBORN; PROCEDURES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

BACTEREMIA; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84905979397     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/677636     Document Type: Article

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