Lack of evidence for the efficacy of enhanced surveillance compared to other specific interventions to control neonatal healthcare-associated infection outbreaks

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 98-106

  Birt, J ^a,b   Le Doarea, K ^a,c,d   Kortsalioudaki, C ^c   Lawn, J ^e   Heath, P T ^c   Sharland, M ^c  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hospital acquired infection; Neonates; Outbreaks; Prevention

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ARTICLE; CARE BUNDLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATALITY; HAND WASHING; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; INFECTION CONTROL; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; INFANT; NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; TRANSMISSION;

CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 84961674070     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: 18783503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/trstmh/trv116     Document Type: Article

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