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pro vyhledávání: '"Enteric precautions"'
Autor:
Clayton H. Brown, Gwen Robinson, Gita Nadimpalli, Daniel J. Morgan, Daniel L. Lemkin, Lucy E. Wilson, Mojdeh S. Heavner, Surbhi Leekha, Natalia Blanco, Emily L. Heil, Rebecca Perlmutter
Publikováno v:
American Journal of Infection Control. 49:319-326
Background Published bundles to reduce Clostridioides difficile Infection (CDI) frequently lack information on compliance with individual elements. We piloted a computerized clinical decision support-based intervention bundle and conducted detailed e
Autor:
David J. Weber, William A. Rutala
Publikováno v:
American Journal of Infection Control. 47:A96-A105
Over the past decade, there is excellent evidence in the scientific literature that contaminated environmental surfaces and noncritical patient care items play an important role in the transmission of several key health care-associated pathogens incl
Autor:
Siddhartha Singh, Sara Revolinski, L. Silvia Munoz-Price, Susan Huerta, Blake W. Buchan, Nathan A. Ledeboer, Sabrina Savage, Mary Beth Graham, Elizabeth Behrens, Paula Pintar
Publikováno v:
Open Forum Infectious Diseases
Background We recently implemented a hospital-wide C. difficile testing algorithm and screening/isolation of C. difficile asymptomatic carriers primarily in heme-onc units. We aim to evaluate the impact of these interventions on the epidemiology of C
Autor:
Molly Leecaster, Diane Mulvey, Kristina Stratford, Yue Zhang, Jeanmarie Mayer, McKenna Nevers, Emma Ide, Nasia Safdar, Heba Alhmidi, Candace Haroldsen, Lindsay Visnovsky, Lauren Barko, Frank A. Drews, Curtis J. Donskey, Catherine Shaughnessy, Matthew H. Samore, Sarah L. Krein
Publikováno v:
Open Forum Infectious Diseases
Background CDC provides guidelines for using contact precautions (CP) when caring for patients with antibiotic-resistant bacteria or Clostridium difficile. However, HCP frequently report discomfort, difficulty of use, and interrupted workflow with CP
Autor:
M A Worsley
Publikováno v:
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 41:59-66
Clostridium difficile has become a major problem as a nosocomial pathogen that is associated with the use of antibiotics. In the prevention and control of C. difficile disease it is important that programmes are directed at primary and secondary prev
Autor:
Edward J. O'Rourke
Publikováno v:
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 15:300-302
See also pages 329 and 335. Category-specific isolation, body substance isolation, disease-specific isolation, drainage/secretion precautions, enteric precautions, resistant-organism precautions, universal precautions, tuberculosis precautions: Can a
Autor:
D. McGechie
Publikováno v:
Pathology. 45:S51
Norovirus and Clostridium difficile infections are presenting new challenges to healthcare systems worldwide. Both are diarrhoeal pathogens that cause institutional outbreaks, contaminate the environment and aerosolise. They are resistant to alcohol,
Autor:
Joyce Louther
Publikováno v:
The American journal of nursing. 96(4)
Autor:
Georges Peter, Penelope H. Dennehy
Publikováno v:
Pediatric Research. 18:181A-181A
To assess the incidence and risk factors of HA of RVI on an infant ward, as defined by the presence of RV antigen in stool examined by ELISA (Abbott), children admitted with community-acquired gastroenteritis (CA GI), those with diarrhea developing