ReviewEmergency medicine clinics of North America2018
Infection Prevention for the Emergency Department: Out of Reach or Standard of Care?
Review in Emergency medicine clinics of North America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 32 citations in OpenAlex.
- Hand hygiene practices for prevention of health care-associated infections associated with admitted infectious patients in the emergency department: a systematic review.Irish journal of medical science · 2023Pooled it
- Adherence to infection prevention and control best practices in emergency units at a tertiary care hospital, Riyadh.BMC emergency medicine · 2026Observational
- Development of remote radar based vital sign acquisition for emergency department patient triage.Frontiers in medical technology · 2026Article
- National Survey on Infection Prevention and Control in United States Emergency Departments.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2025Article
- Infectious Risk in Pediatric Emergency Departments in Italy: A Survey by the Italian Society for Pediatric Emergency and Urgent Medicine (SIMEUP) on Available Preventive and Diagnostic Tools.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Hand hygiene in emergencies: Multiprofessional perceptions from a mixed methods based online survey in Germany.International journal of nursing studies advances · 2024Article
- Higher nursing care level is associated with higher incidence of blood culture contamination in the emergency department: A case-control study.Journal of general and family medicine · 2023Article
- Antimicrobial resistance control in the emergency department: a need for concrete improvement.Antimicrobial resistance and infection control · 2022Article
- Observation of Hand Hygiene Practices in Home Health Care.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2021Observational
- Enablers of, and barriers to, optimal glove and mask use for routine care in the emergency department: an ethnographic study of Australian clinicians.Australasian emergency care · 2020Article
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
The emergency department (ED) presents unique challenges to infection control and prevention. Hand hygiene, transmission-based precautions, environmental cleaning, high-level disinfection and sterilization of reusable medical devices, and prevention of health care-associated infections (catheter-associated urinary tract infection, ventilator-associated pneumonia, central line-associated bloodstream infection) are key priorities in ED infection prevention. Effective and sustainable infection prevention strategies tailored to the ED are necessary and achievable. Emergency clinicians can and already play an invaluable role in infection prevention.
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