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- Title
Wall Supply Boxes: A Risk for Patient Health and Safety.
- Authors
Payne, Glenda
- Abstract
The article discusses a report about an outbreak investigation by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in which a dialysis facility reported bloodstream infections and listed water-borne organisms in culture results. Highlights include close proximity without separation of clean and dirty fluids in the wall boxes, number of patients affected by the outbreak, and suggestions made by the investigators to protect patients from source of infection.
- Subjects
BLOODBORNE infections; CENTERS for Disease Control &; Prevention (U.S.); PREVENTION of communicable diseases; GRAM-negative bacterial diseases; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS facilities; MEDICAL quality control; PATIENT safety; PERSONNEL management; PSEUDOMONAS diseases; SERRATIA diseases; WORLD Wide Web; DIALYSIS catheters; CATHETER-related infections
- Publication
Nephrology Nursing Journal, 2019, Vol 46, Issue 6, p643
- ISSN
1526-744X
- Publication type
Article