Baseline measure of alcohol-based skin preparation agents before 2011 National Quality Forum recommendation in a
Akkeneel Talsma1, Andrzej Galecki, Carol E Chenoweth
1University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
|October 12, 2013
Abstract:
The National Quality Forum (2011) recommends the use of alcohol-based skin preparation agents before surgery to help prevent infections. This multihospital study (n = 3,794) evaluates its use in a general surgery patient population before the National Quality Forum recommendation. Forty-seven percent of cases received an alcohol-based skin preparation agent.
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