Statewide assessment of use of infection prevention techniques and technologies.
An array of devices and products designed to prevent health care-associated infections are commercially available. Data indicating device efficacy are often mixed and frequency of product use is largely unknown. This statewide assessment was performed to determine hospital use of infection prevention products and to examine differences between larger and smaller hospitals.
University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE. Electronic address: merupp@unmc.edu.
Mark E
ME
Rupp
CIMRO of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.
Peg
P
Gilbert
University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE.
Elizabeth
E
Lyden
Healthcare Interventions, Inc., Omaha, NE.
Peggy
P
Luebbert
D003428:Cross Infection / Q000517:prevention & control*; D018562:Disease Transmission, Infectious / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000379:methods*; D009329:Nebraska; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
Devices; Health care-associated infections; Survey