A bundle strategy including patient hand hygiene to decrease clostridium difficile infections
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A bundle strategy including patient hand hygiene to decrease clostridium difficile infections
Medsurg Nurs.
2014 May-Jun.
Abstract
Prevention strategies for Clostridium difficile infection traditionally have addressed barrier precautions, environmental disinfection, and health care worker hand hygiene. When applied as a bundle, this approach has been used widely as an evidence-based strategy to prevent hospital-acquired C. difficile infection. Expanding the bundle to include patient hand hygiene is a nurse-driven approach to prevent C. difficile transmission.
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