Hygiene: The Looming Achilles Heel in Endoscopy

Visceral Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 21-28

  Jung, Michael ^a   Beilenhoff, Ulrike ^b  

^a Katholisches Klinikum Mainz   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Duodenoscope design; Endoscopy; Infection control; Multidrug resistant organisms (MDRO); Reprocessing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AWARENESS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIOLOGY; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CLEANING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DEVICE SAFETY; DISINFECTION; DUODENOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HAND WASHING; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; INTESTINE FLORA; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT BACTERIUM; PATIENT SAFETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RESPONSIBILITY; REVIEW; STANDARD;

EID: 85030115852     PISSN: 22974725     EISSN: 2297475X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000443626     Document Type: Review

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