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Letters |15 June 1997

Control of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus

Kwan Kew Lai, MD

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  • University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655-0238
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TO THE EDITOR:
The recent article by Slaughter and colleagues [1] comparing the effect of universal use of gloves and gowns with that of universal glove use alone in a medical intensive care unit showed that the use of gloves and gowns was no better than the use of gloves only in preventing rectal colonization by vancomycin-resistant enterococci. We compared the cost of our glove and gown use before and after an outbreak of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in our institution. The annual cost of glove use was $28 602 before the outbreak and $31 483 after the start of the outbreak,...
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Lai KK. Control of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus. Ann Intern Med. 1997;126:1000–1001. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-126-12-199706150-00017

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 1997;126(12):1000-1001.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-126-12-199706150-00017

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