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" Infection management for geriatrics in long-term care facilities / "
edited by Thomas T. Yoshikawa, Joseph G. Ouslander.
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BL
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1023594
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b777964
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Infection management for geriatrics in long-term care facilities /\ edited by Thomas T. Yoshikawa, Joseph G. Ouslander.
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New York :: Marcel Dekker,, ©2002.
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1 online resource (xvi, 497 pages) :: illustrations
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0203909445
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: 0824744314
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: 9780824744311
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0824707842
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Preface; Contents; Contributors; Demographics and Economics of Long-Term Care; Evaluation of Infections in Long-Term Care Facilities Versus Acute Care Hospitals; Epidemiology and Special Aspects of Infectious Diseases in Aging; Impact of Age and Chronic Illness- Related Immune Dysfunction on Risk of Infections; Nutrition and Infection; Clinical Manifestations of Infections; Ethical Issues of Infectious Disease Interventions; Nursing Management of Infections; Establishing an Infection Control Program; Epidemiologic Investigation of Infectious Disease Outbreaks.
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This volume addresses issues such as demographics, epidemiology, host resistance, clinical manifestations, nursing care, ethics, outbreak investigation and antimicrobial therapy.
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Communicable diseases in old age.
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Nursing home patients-- Diseases.
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Aged.
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Communicable diseases in old age.
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MEDICAL-- Geriatrics.
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MEDICAL-- Nursing-- Gerontology.
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Infection Control.
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Nursing Homes.
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Communicable Diseases.
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Homes for the Aged.
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Long-Term Care-- methods.
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| Dewey Classification
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618.97/69
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RC954.3.I52 2002eb
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WT 27.1I435 2002
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Ouslander, Joseph G.
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Yoshikawa, Thomas T.
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