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Autor:
Michael Fontenot, Amy Hallmark, Keith M Madey, Sneha Krishna, Debbra A. Wightman, Jonathan Grein, Laurel Gibbs, Francesca J. Torriani, David Birnbaum, Christopher R. Polage, Raymond Chinn, Zachary Rubin, Shannon C. Mabalot, Susan S. Huang, Frank E. Myers, Stuart H. Cohen, Kathleen A. Quan, Deborah S. Yokoe
Publikováno v:
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. 41:404-410
Objective:To evaluate the National Health Safety Network (NHSN) hospital-onset Clostridioides difficile infection (HO-CDI) standardized infection ratio (SIR) risk adjustment for general acute-care hospitals with large numbers of intensive care unit (
Autor:
Christopher R, Polage, Kathleen A, Quan, Keith, Madey, Frank E, Myers, Debbra A, Wightman, Sneha, Krishna, Jonathan D, Grein, Laurel, Gibbs, Deborah, Yokoe, Shannon C, Mabalot, Raymond, Chinn, Amy, Hallmark, Zachary, Rubin, Michael, Fontenot, Stuart, Cohen, David, Birnbaum, Susan S, Huang, Francesca J, Torriani
Publikováno v:
Infection control and hospital epidemiology. 41(4)
To evaluate the National Health Safety Network (NHSN) hospital-onset Clostridioides difficile infection (HO-CDI) standardized infection ratio (SIR) risk adjustment for general acute-care hospitals with large numbers of intensive care unit (ICU), onco
Autor:
Margie Morgan, Cathy Woerle, Czarina Ganzon, Christian B Pascual, Raymond Chinn, Steve Miller, Jennifer Yim, Christopher R. Polage, Keith M Madey, Jonathan Grein, Laurel Gibbs, Sneha Krishna, Usme Khusbu, Catherine Liu, Nicolle Anne Ocampo, Shannon C Mabalot, Cassiana E. Bittencourt, Susan S. Huang, Sarah B Doernberg, Stuart H. Cohen, Fatemeh Memar, Deborah S. Yokoe, Kathleen A. Quan
Publikováno v:
Open Forum Infectious Diseases
Open Forum Infectious Diseases, vol 6, iss Supplement_2
Open Forum Infectious Diseases, vol 6, iss Supplement_2
Background Guidelines support the use of toxin tests after C. difficile antigen detection or nucleic acid amplification tests (e.g., PCR) to help clinicians distinguish colonization from infection and reduce overdiagnosis but the safety of toxin-base
Autor:
Catherine Liu, Deborah J. Thompson, Francesca J. Torriani, Zachary Rubin, Laurel Gibbs, David M. Tehrani, Stuart H. Cohen, Marsha Koopman, Geri Braddock, Dana Russell, Teresa Zaroda, David A. Pegues, Eric Cui, Rupak Datta, Susan S. Huang, Kim Boynton-Delahanty, Jennifer Brown, Kathleen A. Quan, Amy Nichols
Publikováno v:
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. 34:176-183
Background.Central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) is a national target for mandatory reporting and a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services target for value-based purchasing. Differences in chart review versus claims-based metrics
Autor:
Charles E. McCulloch, Lisa G. Winston, Richard A. Jacobs, B. Joseph Guglielmo, Laurel Gibbs, Marisa N. Mendez
Publikováno v:
Pharmacotherapy. 26:61-67
Study Objective. To evaluate the impact of a shortage of piperacillintazobactam in the United States in 2002 on antimicrobial prescribing and associated rates of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) and Clostridium difficile infections. Design. Ret
Publikováno v:
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. 25:346-348
Surgical-site infection occurred in 6 of 42 neurospinal cases in which bone wax was used and in 1 of 72 cases in which it was not used during a 3-month period (P< .01). Increased risk of infection should be considered when using bone wax as a hemosta
Autor:
Avo Artinyan, Julio Garcia-Aguilar, Madhulika G. Varma, Laurel Gibbs, Carlos Pastor, Edward Kim
Publikováno v:
Diseases of the colon and rectum. 53(1)
The primary goal of the Surgical Care Improvement Project is to improve quality of care by implementing evidence-based health care practices that prevent surgical complications. This study was designed to test the hypothesis that an increase in compl
Publikováno v:
Diseases of the colon and rectum. 51(7)
The goal of this study was to determine the rate of surgical site infection and compliance with process measures designed to prevent infection in a defined population of patients undergoing colorectal operations. A task-force consisting of surgeons,
Autor:
Rebecca Young, Michael A. Gropper, Richard Jacobs, B. Joseph Guglielmo, Alexandra Hilts, Vicky Dudas, Ila Maewal, Laurel Gibbs, Mark Villmann
Publikováno v:
Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety. 31(8)
In response to vancomycin-resistant bacteria, particularly vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), measures have been recommended to improve on the appropriate use of vancomycin.Intervention 1 consisted of an automatic 72-hour vancomycin stop order;
Autor:
Jose Eguia, Dennis L. Stevens, Joe Kimura, Diane Vogelei, Anthony Kakis, Nancy Troup, John E. Conte, Dwight R. Johnson, Edward L. Kaplan, Laurel Gibbs
Publikováno v:
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 35(11)
We describe the nosocomial transmission of group A Streptococcus species (GAS) from a single source patient to 24 health care workers (HCWs). DNA typing revealed that all of the isolates were identical to that of the source patient. The isolates were