Comparing rubbing and scrubbing surgical hand antisepsis with propan-1-ol 60% in accordance with European regulation UNE-EN 12791:2016+A1:2018.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Surgical site infections (SSIs) are common surgical complications that lead to increased costs. Depending on payer type, however, they do not necessarily translate into deficits for every hospital. OBJECTIVE:We investigated how surgical site infections (SSIs) influence the contribution margin in 2 reimburse...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： von Strauss M,Marti WR,Mujagic E,Coslovsky M,Diernberger K,Hall P,Zeindler J,Salm LA,Soysal SD,Mechera R,von Holzen U,Weber WP

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 19-item survey instrument was designed and mailed by the Infectious Diseases Society of America to its membership to determine the media preferred by infectious diseases physicians for continuing medical education on general topics and on antimicrobial resistance. The objective of the survey was to offer the develop...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Blakely JT,Sinkowitz-Cochran RL,Jarvis WR

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated alternative measurement methodology for infrared body thermometry to increase accuracy for outdoor fever screening during the 2003 SARS epidemic. Our results indicate that the auditory meatus temperature is a superior alternative compared with the forehead body surface temperature due to its close appr...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Liu CC,Chang RE,Chang WC

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the rates of and risk factors for carriage and acquisition of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacteriaceae during hospitalization. DESIGN:Cohort study. SETTING:Shaare Zedek Medical Center, a 550-bed teaching hospital. METHODS:During a 5-month period (February 1-June 30,...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Friedmann R,Raveh D,Zartzer E,Rudensky B,Broide E,Attias D,Yinnon AM

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pathogens can survive for extended periods when incorporated into biofilm on dry hospital surfaces (ie, dry-surface biofilm, DSB). Bacteria within biofilm are protected from desiccation and have increased tolerance to cleaning agents and disinfectants. OBJECTIVE:We hypothesized that gloved hands of healthca...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Tahir S,Chowdhury D,Legge M,Hu H,Whiteley G,Glasbey T,Deva AK,Vickery K

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of handwashing experiments using a pigskin substrate and Serratia marcescens as the contaminant compared the residual activity of a chlorhexidine detergent handwash product alone and in combination with anionic and nonionic-based moisturizing products and surfactant systems. The anionic based moisturizing pro...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Benson L,LeBlanc D,Bush L,White J

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a non-blinded randomized trial to determine the impact of a patient hand-hygiene intervention on contamination of hospitalized patients' hands with healthcare-associated pathogens. Among patients with negative hand cultures on admission, recovery of pathogens from hands was significantly reduced in those ...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Sunkesula VCK,Kundrapu S,Knighton S,Cadnum JL,Donskey CJ

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE To elicit expert consensus on the likelihood of infectious outcomes (patient colonization or infection) following a broad range of infectious risk moments (IRMs) from observations in acute care. DESIGN Expert consensus study using modified Delphi technique. PARTICIPANTS Panel of 40 international experts incl...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Clack L,Passerini S,Manser T,Sax H

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection in a cohort of nurses new to a London hospital was 7.6% (13 of 171), using an interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) release assay, and 16.2% (24 of 148), using the tuberculin skin test. On multivariate analysis, birth in a country with tuberculosis prevalence of more than 40 case...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Khanna P,Nikolayevskyy V,Warburton F,Dobson E,Drobniewski F

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE Biofilm has been implicated in bacterial persistence and survival after endoscope reprocessing. In this study, we assessed the impact of different methods of reprocessing on organic residues and viable bacteria after repeated rounds of biofilm formation when each was followed by full reprocessing. METHODS AT...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Alfa MJ,Singh H,Nugent Z,Duerksen D,Schultz G,Reidy C,DeGagne P,Olson N

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate the level of hand or glove contamination with vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) among healthcare workers (HCWs) who touch a patient colonized with VRE and/or the colonized patient's environment during routine care. DESIGN:Structured observational study. SETTING:Medical intensive care unit o...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Hayden MK,Blom DW,Lyle EA,Moore CG,Weinstein RA

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) healthcare personnel handwash procedure allows for the use of a non-neutralizing stripping fluid after washing with an antimicrobial handwash product. The antimicrobial in the handwash product can remain active up until the time of neutralization or plating. A modified healthcare...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Benson L,Bush L,LeBlanc D

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Bloodstream infections due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) have been associated with significant risk of in-hospital mortality. The acute physiology and chronic health evaluation (APACHE) II score was developed and validated for use among intensive care unit (ICU) patients, but its utili...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Stevens V,Lodise TP,Tsuji B,Stringham M,Butterfield J,Dodds Ashley E,Brown K,Forrest A,Brown J

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To reconstruct the infection curve for the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic in Taiwan and to ascertain the temporal changes in the daily number of infections that occurred during the course of the outbreak. METHOD:Back-projection method. RESULTS:The peaks of the epidemic correspond we...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Yip PS,Hsieh YH,Xu Y,Lam KF,King CC,Chang HL

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An episode of acute hepatitis in a patient with hemophilia during immunoadsorption therapy initially was misinterpreted as a reactivated hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, but ultimately was shown to be an exogenous reinfection during cohort treatment with another HCV-positive patient. This incident illustrates that p...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Kaiser R,Geulen O,Matz B,Brackmann HH,Spengler U,Kramer MH,Exner M,Nettekoven W,Ko YD,Zeitler H,Vetter H

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the efficacy of a standardized regimen for decolonization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriers and to identify factors influencing decolonization treatment failure. DESIGN:Prospective cohort study from January 2002 to April 2007, with a mean follow-up period of 36 months...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Buehlmann M,Frei R,Fenner L,Dangel M,Fluckiger U,Widmer AF

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We prospectively surveyed for rectal colonization with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus among 93 high-risk pediatric patients who were hospitalized at least 5 (median, 20) days. Fifty-two patients (56%) had enterococcal colonization; none had active infection with Enterococcus. All enterococci were vancomycin-suscept...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Trabulsi A,Glover AM,Reising SF,Christie CD

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the long-term-care setting and the risk to nursing home residents is still unknown. Few studies have been done in community-based nursing homes, and most have focused on colonization rather than infection rates. Concerns about methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aure...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Bradley SF

更新日期：1999-05-01 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

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To devise a system for surveying the frequency of nosocomial infections in a tertiary care hospital in a developing country. DESIGN:Prospective selective surveillance by nurses of the charts of patients at high risk for nosocomial infections, as identified by a form completed by resident physicians. The sens...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Lima NL,Pereira CR,Souza IC,Facanha MC,Lima AA,Guerrant RL,Farr BM

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) has yielded new insights into the transmission patterns of healthcare facility-onset Clostridioides difficile infection (HO-CDI). WGS results prompted a focused diagnostic stewardship program, which was associated with a significant and sustained decrease in HO-CDI at large, urban hospita...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Jakharia KK,Ilaiwy G,Moose SS,Waga M,Appalla L,McAlduff JD,Karanfil LV,McGann PT,Wortmann GW

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report an outbreak of influenza A from a four-building veterans' facility in King, Wisconsin. Influenza was isolated in 154 of 721 residents over a 121-day period. Building A had 2 cases, no isolates for 40 days, followed by 27 cases. Building B had 25 cases, no isolates for 75 days, followed by 4 cases. Building C...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Drinka PJ,Gravenstein S,Krause P,Nest L,Dissing M,Shult P

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether electronically available comorbidities and laboratory values on admission are risk factors for hospital-onset Clostridioides difficile infection (HO-CDI) across multiple institutions and whether they could be used to improve risk adjustment. PATIENTS:All patients at least 18 years of age...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Cabral SM,Goodman KE,Blanco N,Leekha S,Magder LS,Nadimpalli G,Pineles L,Thom KA,Harris AD

更新日期：2020-12-17 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：:BACKGROUND Despite significant advances in technological methods for hand hygiene surveillance, a lack of evidence prohibits comparison of systems to one another or against the current gold standard of direct observation. OBJECTIVE To validate a hand hygiene monitoring technology (HHMT) designed to capture hand hygien...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Limper HM,Slawsky L,Garcia-Houchins S,Mehta S,Hershow RC,Landon E

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the prevalence, epidemiologic features, and molecular characteristics of colonization with community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) among hospitalized dialysis patients and their healthcare workers (HCWs). DESIGN:Prospective observational clinical and laboratory ...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Johnson LB,Jose J,Yousif F,Pawlak J,Saravolatz LD

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Timely identification of outbreaks of hospital-associated infections is needed to implement control measures and minimize impact. Survey results from 33 hospitals indicated that most hospitals lacked a formal cluster definition and all targeted a very limited group of prespecified pathogens. Standardized, statisticall...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Baker MA,Huang SS,Letourneau AR,Kaganov RE,Peeples JR,Drees M,Platt R,Yokoe DS

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Case-control studies analyzing antibiotic exposure as a risk factor for antimicrobial resistance usually assume single-drug resistance in the bacteria under study, even though resistance to multiple antimicrobials may be present. Since antibiotic selection pressures differ depending on the susceptibility pro...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： D'Agata EM,Cataldo MA,Cauda R,Tacconelli E

更新日期：2006-07-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the impact of postdischarge surveillance on surgical site infection (SSI) rates after orthopedic surgery. SETTING:Nine hospitals participating in the Finnish Hospital Infection Program. PATIENTS:All patients who underwent hip or knee arthroplasty or open reduction of a femur fracture during 1999...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Huotari K,Lyytikäinen O,Hospital Infection Surveillance Team.

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00