Policies for Controlling Multidrug-Resistant Organisms in US Healthcare Facilities Reporting to the National Healthcare Safety Network, 2014

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1105-1108

  Weiner, Lindsey M ^a   Webb, Amy K ^a   Walters, Maroya S ^a   Dudeck, Margaret A ^a   Kallen, Alexander J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORHEXIDINE; TOPICAL ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; CARBAPENEM RESISTANT ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EMERGENCY CARE; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE PRODUCING ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSAL PRECAUTION; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CROSS INFECTION; HAND DISINFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSMISSION;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHLORHEXIDINE; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HAND DISINFECTION; HEALTH FACILITIES; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84991491341     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2016.139     Document Type: Article

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