Pre-Operative Antisepsis Protocol Compliance and the Effect on Bacterial Load Reduction
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Summary
This study demonstrates existing problems with infection prevention as those tasked with pre-operative skin preparation do so with tremendous incongruence according to manufacturer guidelines.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 2016-01-19
- Cited by
- 16
- References
- 18
- OpenAlex
- https://openalex.org/W1881542883
- Semantic Scholar
- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:38061945
Keywords
Medicine, Protocol (science), Compliance (psychology), Reduction (mathematics), Intensive care medicine
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