Identifying potential areas of infectivity on high-touch locations in the OR.
Personnel at an ambulatory surgery center in Franklin, Wisconsin, used the nationwide emphasis on minimizing health care-associated infections as the impetus to set up an investigation to determine the effectiveness of cleaning procedures for the OR and stationary OR equipment. During the course of...
| Publicado en: | AORN Journal Vol. 96; no. 5; pp. 507 - 513 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Nov2012
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