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Assessing Excess Nurse Work Load Generated by Multiresistant Nosocomial Bacteria in Intensive Care

To compare three methods for assessing the excess nurse work load related to recommended procedures for managing nosocomial infections (NI) due to multiresistant bacteria (MRB): two activity scores, the Omega score and the Projet de Recherche en Nursing (PRN) system, and a specific evaluation based...

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Published in:Infection control and hospital epidemiology 2001-05, Vol.22 (5), p.273-278
Main Authors: Saulnier, Fabienne F., Hubert, Hervè, Onimus, Thierry M., Beague, Sébastien, Nseir, Saad, Grandbastien, Bruno, Renault, Catherine Y., Idzik, Myrian, Erb, Martine P., Durocher, Alain V.
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Bacteria
Biological and medical sciences
Cross Infection - microbiology
Cross Infection - nursing
Cross Infection - prevention & control
Drug Resistance, Microbial
Epidemiology. Vaccinations
Female
Functional analysis
General aspects
Humans
Infection control
Infection Control - methods
Infections
Infectious diseases
Intensive care
Intensive care units
Intensive Care Units - manpower
Intensive Care Units - statistics & numerical data
Length of Stay - statistics & numerical data
Male
Medical sciences
Medical treatment
Middle Aged
Nurses
Nursing
Original Articles
Retrospective Studies
Statistics, Nonparametric
Understaffing
Workload - statistics & numerical data
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