Journal article
Development of a tool to assess evidence for causality in studies implicating sink drains as a reservoir for hospital-acquired gammaproteobacterial infection
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Decades of studies document an association between Gammaproteobacteria in sink drains and hospital-acquired infections, but the evidence for causality is unclear.
AIM: We aimed to develop a tool to assess the quality of evidence for causality in research studies that implicate sink drains as reservoirs for hospital-acquired Gammaproteobacterial infections.
Authors
Volling C; Thomas S; Johnstone J; Maltezou HC; Mertz D; Stuart R; Jamal AJ; Kandel C; Ahangari N; Coleman BL
Journal
Journal of Hospital Infection, Vol. 106, No. 3, pp. 454–464
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
11 2020
DOI
10.1016/j.jhin.2020.08.024
ISSN
0195-6701