Implementation of a systematic culturing program to monitor the efficacy of endoscope reprocessing: outcomes and costs

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 104-109.e3

  Ma, Gene K ^a   Pegues, David A ^a   Kochman, Michael L ^a   Alby, Kevin ^a   Fishman, Neil O ^a   Saunders, Marianne ^b   Grous, Carolyn ^b   Dempsey, Daniel T ^b   Ginsberg, Gregory G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOFILM; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CARBAPENEM RESISTANT ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEVICE INFECTION; DISINFECTION; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUARANTINE; REPEAT PROCEDURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROTHIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; DIGESTIVE ENDOSCOPE; DUODENOSCOPE; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIC; MEDICAL DEVICE CONTAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RECYCLING;

CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISINFECTION; DUODENOSCOPES; ENDOSCOPES, GASTROINTESTINAL; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EQUIPMENT REUSE; HUMANS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 85020432145     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2017.05.001     Document Type: Article

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