Implementing a Multifaceted Intervention to Decrease Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections in SEHA (Abu Dhabi Health Services Company) Intensive Care Units: The Abu Dhabi Experience

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 816-822

  Latif, Asad ^a,b,c   Kelly, Bernadette ^d   Edrees, Hanan ^a,c   Kent, Paula S ^a,e   Weaver, Sallie J ^a,b   Jovanovic, Branislava ^d   Attallah, Hadeel ^d   De Grouchy, Kristin K ^a   Al Obaidli, Ali ^d   Goeschel, Christine A ^c,f   Berenholtz, Sean M ^a,b,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d Abu Dhabi Health Services Co   (United Arab Emirates)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f MEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABU DHABI; ARTICLE; CATHETER INFECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORONARY CARE UNIT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS INFECTION; EVALUATION STUDY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; SAFETY; SEPSIS; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERS; CROSS INFECTION; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; PATIENT SAFETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SEPSIS; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

EID: 84965093659     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2015.70     Document Type: Article

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