A bundle strategy including patient hand hygiene to decrease clostridium difficile infections

MEDSURG Nursing

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Pokrywka, Marian ^a   Feigel, Jody ^a   Douglas, Barbara ^a   Grossberger, Susan ^a   Hensler, Amelia ^a   Weber, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTION; CROSS INFECTION; DISINFECTION; EVIDENCE BASED NURSING; HAND WASHING; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; NURSING; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; STATISTICS; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; UNITED STATES;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DISINFECTION; EVIDENCE-BASED NURSING; HAND HYGIENE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PENNSYLVANIA; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS;

EID: 84907276382     PISSN: 10920811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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