Enhanced terminal room disinfection and acquisition and infection caused by multidrug-resistant organisms and Clostridium difficile (the Benefits of Enhanced Terminal Room Disinfection study): a cluster-randomised, multicentre, crossover study
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- 16 January 2017
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in The Lancet
- Vol. 389 (10071), 805-814
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(16)31588-4
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Funding Information
- CDC Prevention Epicenters Program (U54CK000164, to DJS)
- NIH/NIAID (K23AI095357, to DJA)
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, NIH (UL1TR001111)
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