Practicability of hygienic wrapping of touchscreen operated mobile devices in a clinical setting

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Hammon, Matthias ^a   Kunz, Bernd ^b   Dinzl, Veronika ^a   Kammerer, Ferdinand J ^a   Schwab, Siegfried A ^a   Bogdan, Christian ^b   Uder, Michael ^a   Schlechtweg, Philipp M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER LWOFFII; ADULT; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; COMPUTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HYGIENE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MOBILE PHONE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PACKAGING MATERIAL; PANTOEA AGGLOMERANS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PLASTIC BAG; QUESTIONNAIRE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS SANGUINIS; TOUCHSCREEN OPERATED MOBILE DEVICE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HAND WASHING; MEDICAL DEVICE CONTAMINATION; MIDDLE AGED; SATISFACTION;

PLASTIC;

BACTERIA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; COMPUTERS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; HAND HYGIENE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PLASTICS;

EID: 84929942646     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0106445     Document Type: Article

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