Reduction in Vancomycin-Resistant <i>Enterococcus</i> and <i>Clostridium Difficile</i> Infections Following Change to Tympanic Thermometers

E. Brooks, Steven; A. Khan, Ashraf; Stoica, Dorin; Griffith, Jennylyn; Friedeman, Les; Mukherji, Rajat; Hameed, Rizwanullah; Schupf, Nicole

doi:10.1086/647824

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Reduction in Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus and Clostridium Difficile Infections Following Change to Tympanic Thermometers

Published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology • May 1, 1998

Authors:

Steven E. Brooks

Ashraf A. Khan

Dorin Stoica

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To contain a nosocomial outbreak of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE). DESIGN: Intervention study, with comparison of incidence rates before and after intervention to assess whether changes in incidence followed the intervention and were greater than expected based on trends observe...

Subject

Medicine

Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus

Incidence (geometry)

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