Cleaning hospital room surfaces to prevent health care-associated infections: A technical brief

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 163, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 598-607

  Han, Jennifer H ^a   Sullivan, Nancy ^b   Leas, Brian F ^c   Pegues, David A ^a   Kaczmarek, Janice L ^b   Umscheid, Craig A ^c  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b ECRI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CLEANING; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; DISINFECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; CROSS INFECTION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOSPITAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES;

CROSS INFECTION; DISINFECTION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; PATIENTS' ROOMS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 84945182605     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/M15-1192     Document Type: Review

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