Preventing infections acquired during health-care delivery

Lancet. 2008 Nov 15;372(9651):1719-20. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61715-8.

Authors

Benedetta Allegranzi¹, Didier Pittet

Affiliation

¹ First Global Patient Safety Challenge, World Alliance for Patient Safety, WHO, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland.

PMID: 19013310
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61715-8

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Cross Infection / epidemiology
Cross Infection / prevention & control*
Disease Transmission, Infectious / prevention & control*
Disease Transmission, Infectious / statistics & numerical data
Global Health*
Humans
Infection Control / methods*
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus*
Population Surveillance / methods*
Staphylococcal Infections / epidemiology
Staphylococcal Infections / prevention & control
Staphylococcal Infections / transmission*