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Autor:
Joseph M. Mylotte
Publikováno v:
Current Treatment Options in Infectious Diseases. 13:153-164
To identify the severity of illness (SOI) models that have been utilized most often in studies of bloodstream infection (BSI) and analyze their development to determine the model that is most useful for measuring SOI. In 555 of 945 studies of BSI tha
Autor:
Joseph M. Mylotte
Publikováno v:
American Journal of Infection Control. 49:366-374
Until recently, there was no national surveillance system for monitoring infection occurrence in long-term care facilities (LTCF) in the United States. As a result, there are no national benchmarks for LTCF infection rates that can be utilized for qu
Autor:
Joseph M. Mylotte
Publikováno v:
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 21:308-314
Pneumonia is 1 of the 3 most common infections identified in nursing home residents and is associated with the highest mortality of any infection in this setting. In regard to pneumonia in the nursing home setting, practitioners are focused primarily
Autor:
Joseph M. Mylotte
Publikováno v:
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
This is the second of 2 parts of a narrative review of nursing home-associated pneumonia (NHAP) that deals with etiology and treatment in the nursing home. In the 1980s and 1990s, the etiology of NHAP was considered to be similar to community-acquire
Autor:
Joseph M. Mylotte
Publikováno v:
Drugsaging. 38(1)
The overdiagnosis of urinary tract infection (UTI) in nursing home residents that results in unnecessary antibiotic treatment has been recognized for more than 2 decades. This has resulted in the publication of several decision tools for the diagnosi
Autor:
Joseph M. Mylotte
Publikováno v:
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 66:590-594
This article is an evaluation of the literature on oral hygiene as a risk factor for nursing home-associated pneumonia (NHAP) and with interventions to improve oral hygiene and reduce the incidence of NHAP. The background for this article is that stu
Autor:
Joseph M. Mylotte
Publikováno v:
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 21(1)
Recently, there have been several publications advocating for an expansive role for nursing homes (NHs) in the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC). The rationale for this effort is the problem of high rates of 30-day readmissions from NHs and a dispropor
Autor:
Kathleen A Donohue, Christopher W. Kerr, Sarah M Knodel, Pei C Grant, Amin M. Serehali, Melanie J. Marien, Debra L. Luczkiewicz, Kathleen M. Mylotte, John C. Tangeman
Publikováno v:
Journal of Palliative Medicine. 17:1328-1335
In the United States, 5% of the population is responsible for nearly half of all health care expenditures, with a large concentration of spending driven by individuals with expensive chronic conditions in their last year of life. Outpatient palliativ
Autor:
Joseph M. Mylotte
Publikováno v:
Infection control and hospital epidemiology. 38(12)
Publikováno v:
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 61:122-125
Objectives: To define the time of onset of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) in the community nursing home setting. Design: Retrospective. Setting: Four community nursing homes. Participants: Residents with incident CDI identified from infection