Hand Rub Consumption Has Almost Doubled in 132 German Hospitals Over 9 Years.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop a standardized surveillance system for monitoring hemodialysis vascular-access infections in order to compare infection rates between outpatient sites and to assess the effectiveness of infection control interventions. DESIGN:Prospective descriptive analysis of incidence infection rates. SETTING:...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Stevenson KB,Adcox MJ,Mallea MC,Narasimhan N,Wagnild JP

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In patients with smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis who are hospitalized or reside in congregate settings, guidelines recommend airborne infection isolation until sputum smear results are negative. Studies have identified factors associated with delayed sputum smear and culture conversion in patients with ...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Horne DJ,Johnson CO,Oren E,Spitters C,Narita M

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the comparative virulence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and methicillin-sensitive S aureus (MSSA) by consideration of predisposing factors and outcomes in patients infected with these organisms in the healthcare setting. DESIGN:Analysis of an historical cohort of 504 bact...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Selvey LA,Whitby M,Johnson B

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Develop a clinical decision support tool comprised of an electronic medical record alert and antimicrobial stewardship navigator to facilitate antimicrobial stewardship. DESIGN:We analyzed alerts targeting antimicrobial de-escalation to assess the effectiveness of the navigator as a stewardship tool. The ale...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Schulz L,Osterby K,Fox B

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three different sequentially applied post-varicella zoster virus (VZV) exposure management strategies were employed over a 43-month period. We began by using a standard post-exposure protocol in which 50 susceptible healthcare workers (HCW) involved in hospital exposures were furloughed from work at a loss to the hosp...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Josephson A,Karanfil L,Gombert ME

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a cross-sectional study of Thai medical students, we compared the seroprevalence of antibody to measles virus, rubella virus, varicella zoster virus, hepatitis A virus, and hepatitis B virus with self-reports of prior infection or vaccination. Self-report predicted immunity to varicella zoster virus only. These dat...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Srichomkwun P,Apisarnthanarak A,Thongphubeth K,Yuekyen C,Mundy LM

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic prescribing practices across the Veterans' Health Administration (VA) experienced significant shifts during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. From 2015 to 2019, antibiotic use between January and May decreased from 638 to 602 days of therapy (DOT) per 1,000 days present (DP), while the corre...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Dieringer TD,Furukawa D,Graber CJ,Stevens VW,Jones MM,Rubin MA,Goetz MB

更新日期：2020-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In this study, we aimed to quantify short- and long-term outcomes of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) in the elderly, including all-cause mortality, transfer to a facility, and hospitalizations. DESIGN:Retrospective study using 2011 Medicare claims data, including all elderly persons coded for CDI and a...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Olsen MA,Stwalley D,Demont C,Dubberke ER

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine trends, patient characteristics, and outcome of patients with healthcare-associated influenza in Canadian hospitals. DESIGN:Prospective surveillance of laboratory-confirmed influenza among hospitalized adults was conducted from 2006 to 2012. Adults with positive test results at or after admissio...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Taylor G,Mitchell R,McGeer A,Frenette C,Suh KN,Wong A,Katz K,Wilkinson K,Amihod B,Gravel D,Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program.

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the diagnostic value of an adenosinetriphosphate bioluminescence assay (ATPmetry) to monitor the effectiveness of the reprocessing of endoscopes compared with microbiologic sampling. DESIGN:Diagnostic study. SETTING:A 2,200-bed teaching hospital performing 5,000 to 6,000 endoscopic procedures annu...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Batailler P,Saviuc P,Picot-Gueraud R,Bosson JL,Mallaret MR

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five of 18 samples of working dilutions of disinfectants used in the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, the University Clinic, and three other urban medical centers were found to be contaminated with bacteria. The results confirmed that disinfectants in storage support the growth of infectious agents, underlining...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Olayemi AB,Obayan Y

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To characterize occupationally acquired human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection detected through case surveillance efforts in the United States. DESIGN:National surveillance systems, based on voluntary case reporting. SETTING:Healthcare or laboratory (clinical or research) settings. PATIENTS:Healthcar...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Do AN,Ciesielski CA,Metler RP,Hammett TA,Li J,Fleming PL

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Current efforts to contain anti-microbial costs in hospitals are based on restricting drugs. We explored the effects of unsolicited case-specific recommendations to physicians to discontinue parenteral antimicrobial therapy in medically stable patients with pneumonia, in order to shorten hospital length of s...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Ehrenkranz NJ,Nerenberg DE,Shultz JM,Slater KC

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the impact of 1-week ventilator circuit change on ventilator-associated pneumonia and its cost-effectiveness compared with a 2-day change. DESIGN:An observational cohort study. SETTING:A tertiary level neonatal intensive care unit in a university-affiliated teaching hospital in Taiwan. Patien...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Chu SM,Yang MC,Hsiao HF,Hsu JF,Lien R,Chiang MC,Fu RH,Huang HR,Hsu KH,Tsai MH

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the clonality of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains among hospitalized patients. SETTING:University-affiliated, 465-bed tertiary-care teaching hospital with adjacent cancer clinic in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. DESIGN:Thirty-five colonized and 30 infected patients from Jan...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Nath SK,Shea B,Jackson S,Rotstein C

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence that genes were transferred during evolution from plants to bacteria was obtained from nucleotide and protein sequence analyses. However, the extent of such transfers among phylogenetically distant organisms is limited by various factors, including those related to complexity of the environment and those endo...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Bertolla F,Kay E,Simonet P

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several discrete strategies have been suggested to prevent or reduce microbial resistance to antimicrobials, including optimal use of the agents (also known as good stewardship); control, removal, or restriction of antimicrobials; use of antimicrobials in combination; and rotational or cyclic use of antimicrobials. Th...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Gerding DN

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clonal Mycobacterium mucogenicum isolates (determined by molecular typing) were recovered from 19 bronchoscopic specimens from 15 patients. None of these patients had evidence of mycobacterial infection. Laboratory culture materials and bronchoscopes were negative for Mycobacteria. This pseudo-outbreak was caused by c...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Bringhurst J,Weber DJ,Miller MB,Jones MC,Rivera MP,Akulian J,Rutala WA,Sickbert-Bennett EE

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interventions that prevent healthcare-associated infection should lead to fewer deaths and shorter hospital stays. Cleaning hands (with soap or alcohol) is an effective way to prevent the transmission of organisms, but rates of compliance with hand hygiene are sometimes disappointingly low. The National Hand...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Barnett AG,Page K,Campbell M,Brain D,Martin E,Rashleigh-Rolls R,Halton K,Hall L,Jimmieson N,White K,Paterson D,Graves N

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food is an established source of extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacteriaceae. Hand hygiene and cooking prevent transmission, but hands could be recontaminated by touching used cutting boards. ESBL-producing Escherichia coli were identified on 12% of cutting boards and 50% of gloves after poultry ...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Tschudin-Sutter S,Frei R,Stephan R,Hächler H,Nogarth D,Widmer AF

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate clonal dissemination of methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci (CNS). SETTING:Neonatal intensive care unit of a 180-bed, university-affiliated general hospital. PATIENTS:Neonates admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit between March 1999 and October 2000, from whom CNS were ...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Bogado I,Limansky A,Sutich E,Marchiaro P,Marzi M,Putero J,Viale A

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop and internally validate a surgical site infection (SSI) prediction model for Japan. DESIGN:Retrospective observational cohort study. METHODS:We analyzed surveillance data submitted to the Japan Nosocomial Infections Surveillance system for patients who had undergone target surgical procedures fro...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Fukuda H,Kuroki M

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BACKGROUND Healthcare provider hands are an important source of intraoperative bacterial transmission events associated with postoperative infection development. OBJECTIVE To explore the efficacy of a novel hand hygiene improvement system leveraging provider proximity and individual and group performance feedback in r...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Koff MD,Brown JR,Marshall EJ,O'Malley AJ,Jensen JT,Heard SO,Longtine K,O'Neill M,Longtine J,Houston D,Robison C,Moulton E,Patel HM,Loftus RW

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe an outbreak of hepatitis C in a clinical research study. DESIGN:Observational study. SETTING:Tertiary-care hospital. PATIENTS:Healthcare workers who volunteered to be subjects in a study of the metabolic effects of inhaled and oral corticosteroids who were unwittingly exposed to hepatitis C vir...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Saginur R,Nixon J,Devries B,Bruce N,Carruthers C,Scully L,Berger R,Leech J,Nicolle L,Mackenzie A

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the time-dependent exposure of California healthcare facilities to patients harboring methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Clostridium difficile infec...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Datta R,Brown S,Nguyen VQ,Cao C,Billimek J,Avery T,Lee BY,Huang SS

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify risk factors associated with surgical site infection (SSI) after pediatric posterior spinal fusion procedure by examining characteristics related to the patient, the surgical procedure, and tissue hypoxia. DESIGN:Retrospective case-control study nested in a hospital cohort study. SETTING:A 475-b...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Linam WM,Margolis PA,Staat MA,Britto MT,Hornung R,Cassedy A,Connelly BL

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BACKGROUND Extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (ESBL-E) are emerging worldwide. Contact precautions are recommended for known ESBL-E carriers to control the spread of ESBL-E within hospitals. OBJECTIVE This study quantified the acquisition of ESBL-E rectal carriage among patients in Dutch hospit...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Kluytmans-van den Bergh MFQ,van Mens SP,Haverkate MR,Bootsma MCJ,Kluytmans JAJW,Bonten MJM,SoM Study Group and the R-GNOSIS Study Group.

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate trends in plasmid types of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus over a 3-year period and determine the clinical impact of plasmid typing. DESIGN:Restriction endonuclease analysis of plasmid DNA (REAP) was used to type 270 clinical isolates. SETTING:A Veterans Affairs Medical Center. R...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Trilla A,Nettleman MD,Hollis RJ,Fredrickson M,Wenzel RP,Pfaller MA

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrated a 20% rate of subsequent carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE)-associated infections among hospitalized CRE carriers. Independent factors associated with the infections were number of colonization sites, central-line insertion, and receiving vancomycin before colonization. These findings unders...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Khawcharoenporn T,Laichuthai W

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surveillance for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was implemented in Rio de Janeiro and Uberlândia University Hospitals, which had different policies on use of mupirocin. One hundred fourteen multiresistant MRSA strains were isolated from 62 patients. Mupirocin resistance was observed in 63% of strai...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Netto dos Santos KR,de Souza Fonseca L,Gontijo Filho PP

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00