A successful vancomycin-resistant enterococci reduction bundle at a Singapore Hospital

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 107-109

  Fisher, Dale ^a,b   Pang, Long ^b   Salmon, Sharon ^b   Lin, Raymond T P ^a,b   Teo, Cathrine ^b   Tambyah, Paul ^a,b   Jureen, Roland ^b   Cook, Alex R ^b   Otter, Jonathan A ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (Singapore)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NONHUMAN; SINGAPORE; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; CARE BUNDLE; CROSS INFECTION; DISINFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENETICS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH SURVEY; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MASS SCREENING; PATIENT ISOLATION; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

CROSS INFECTION; DISINFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MASS SCREENING; PATIENT CARE BUNDLES; PATIENT ISOLATION; PATIENTS' ROOMS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SINGAPORE; VANCOMYCIN-RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCI;

EID: 85003054781     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2015.251     Document Type: Article

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