ERCP and reprocessing in focus: What can we do to prevent or manage infection outbreaks?

Endoscopy

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 483-485

  Beilenhoff, Ulrike ^a  

^a Scientific Secretariat European Society of Gastroenterology Endoscopy Nurses and Assoc   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; CARBAPENEM RESISTANT ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; DUODENOSCOPE; ENDOSCOPE; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; PATIENT SAFETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VALIDATION PROCESS; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CROSS INFECTION; DEVICES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; INFECTION CONTROL; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; TRANSMISSION;

CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DUODENOSCOPES; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL;

EID: 84931266801     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: 14388812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0034-1392153     Document Type: Review

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