Multidisciplinary performance improvement team for reducing health care-associated Clostridium difficile infection

American Journal of Infection Control

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 352-354

  Waqar, Sana ^a   Nigh, Kathy ^b   Sisler, Lori ^b   Fanning, Mary ^b   Tancin, Steven ^b   Brozik, Erin ^b   Jones, Rebekah ^b   Briggs, Frank ^b   Keller, Lisa ^b   Lasala, P Rocco ^b   Krautz, Sam ^b   Khakoo, Rashida ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (United States)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile infection; Hydrogen peroxide vapor system

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEFEPIME; CEFTRIAXONE; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLEANING; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED INFECTION; DIARRHEA; FINANCIAL DEFICIT; HAND WASHING; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; TRANSMISSION;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL;

EID: 84959482321     PISSN: 01966553     EISSN: 15273296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2015.09.022     Document Type: Article

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