Getting to Zero: Reducing the risk for duodenoscope-related infections

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 163, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 873-874

  Tokar, Jeffrey L ^a   Allen, John I ^b   Kochman, Michael L ^c  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE OXIDE;

AUTOCLAVE; BILE DUCT STONE; BIOFILM; CARBAPENEM RESISTANT ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; CHOLANGITIS; COLONOSCOPY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISINFECTION; DUODENOSCOPE; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; INFECTION; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; INTESTINE FLORA; MEDICAL DEVICE CONTAMINATION; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; DEVICES; INFECTION CONTROL; RISK FACTOR;

CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; DUODENOSCOPES; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; RISK FACTORS; STERILIZATION;

EID: 84948681439     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/M15-1719     Document Type: Note

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