Nursing homes in states with infection control training or infection reporting have reduced infection control deficiency citations

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1475-1476

  Cohen, Catherine C ^a   Engberg, John ^b   Herzig, Carolyn T A ^a,c   Dick, Andrew W ^b   Stone, Patricia W ^a  

^a Center for Health Policy ^*  (United States)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MANDATORY REPORTING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NURSE TRAINING; NURSING HOME; RESIDENTIAL CARE; RESIDENTIAL HOME; SOCIAL STATUS; CROSS INFECTION; GOVERNMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES (U.S.); CROSS INFECTION; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; LOGISTIC MODELS; NURSING HOMES; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84955131619     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2015.214     Document Type: Article

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