Hospital outbreak of Norwalk-like virus.

abstract：:To understand the feasibility of implementing a standardized performance measure for collecting and reporting influenza vaccination rates among healthcare personnel, qualitative, semistructured interviews were conducted with key informants in 32 healthcare facilities. Despite practical and logistical challenges to imp...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Maccannell T,Shugart A,Schneider AK,Lindley MC,Lorick SA,Rao A,Woods LO,Ahmed F,Sinkowitz-Cochran RL

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the ability of a standard disinfection procedure to eliminate hepatitis C virus (HCV) from the air-water channel of hysteroscopes. The residual HCV RNA remaining after the disinfection procedure was measured by polymerase chain reaction. When correctly applied to hysteroscopes, the standard disinfection pr...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Sartor C,Charrel RN,de Lamballerie X,Sambuc R,De Micco P,Boubli L

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe an outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) ST398 in a nursing home in the Netherlands. Seven residents and 4 healthcare workers were identified with MRSA ST398, but 2 of the healthcare workers carried other strains. This study demonstrates that MRSA ST398 can spread in nursing homes....

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Verkade E,Bosch T,Hendriks Y,Kluytmans J

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A surgeon-specific computer-generated monthly questionnaire was used to improve surveillance of surgical wound infections in outpatients as well as inpatients following discharge. From July 1988 through June 1989, 20,536 surgical procedures were performed at our medical center, of which 53% were for outpatients. The t...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Manian FA,Meyer L

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial agents are among the most frequently prescribed medications in long-term-care facilities (LTCFs). Therefore, it is not surprising that Clostridium difficile colonization and C. difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD) occur commonly in elderly LTCF residents. C. difficile has been identified as the most comm...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Simor AE,Bradley SF,Strausbaugh LJ,Crossley K,Nicolle LE,SHEA Long-Term-Care Committee.

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 50% of women with clinically apparent infection after mastectomy did not meet the 2020 National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) definition for surgical site infection (SSI). Implant loss was similar whether the 2020 NHSN SSI definition was met or not, suggesting equivalent adverse outcomes regardless of res...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Bediako-Bowan AAA,Warren DK,Nickel KB,Fraser VJ,Olsen MA

更新日期：2020-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Social media, prevention of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and antimicrobial stewardship (ASP) each impact every area of medicine. Independently, each have power to change medicine, however, synergistically, the impact could be transformative. Given the profound clinical, financial, and public health impact o...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Cawcutt KA,Marcelin JR,Silver JK

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the potential role of blood pressure (BP) cuffs in the spread of bacterial infections in hospitals. DESIGN:A comprehensive, prospective study quantitatively and qualitatively evaluating the bacterial contamination on BP cuffs of 203 sphygmomanometers in use in 18 hospital units from January th...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： de Gialluly C,Morange V,de Gialluly E,Loulergue J,van der Mee N,Quentin R

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Across 36 US pediatric oncology centers, 576 central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) were reported over a 21-month period. Most infections occurred in those with leukemia and/or profound neutropenia. The contribution of viridans streptococci infections was striking. Study findings depict the contempor...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Gaur AH,Bundy DG,Gao C,Werner EJ,Billett AL,Hord JD,Siegel JD,Dickens D,Winkle C,Miller MR,Children's Hospital Association Hematology-Oncology Quality Transformation Collaborative Project.

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated an outbreak of postoperative shoulder arthritis due to Propionibacterium acnes infection in nondebilitated patients. Risk factors were male sex, the order in which surgery was performed during the daily operating schedule, and increased duration of the surgical procedure. After modification of the vent...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Berthelot P,Carricajo A,Aubert G,Akhavan H,Gazielly D,Lucht F

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To document the costs and the benefits (both in terms of costs averted and of injuries averted) of education sessions and replacement of phlebotomy devices to ensure that needle recapping did not take place. DESIGN:The percentage of recapped needles and the rate of needlestick injuries were evaluated in 1990...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Roudot-Thoraval F,Montagne O,Schaeffer A,Dubreuil-Lemaire ML,Hachard D,Durand-Zaleski I

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop a method for selecting health care-associated infection (HAI) measures for public reporting. CONTEXT:HAIs are common, serious, and costly adverse outcomes of medical care that affect 2 million people in the United States annually. Thirty-seven states have introduced or passed legislation requiring...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Passaretti CL,Barclay P,Pronovost P,Perl TM,Maryland Health Care Commission Health Care–Associated Infection Technical Advisory Committee.

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the accuracy of nosocomial infections data reported on patients in the intensive-care unit by nine hospitals participating in the National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) System. DESIGN:A pilot study was done in two phases to review the charts of selected intensive-care-unit patients who ...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Emori TG,Edwards JR,Culver DH,Sartor C,Stroud LA,Gaunt EE,Horan TC,Gaynes RP

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) severity criteria adequately predicts poor outcomes. DESIGN:Retrospective validation study. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS:Patients with CDI...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Stevens VW,Shoemaker HE,Jones MM,Jones BE,Nelson RE,Khader K,Samore MH,Rubin MA

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used mandatory public reporting as an impetus to perform a statewide study to define risk factors for surgical site infection. Among women who underwent abdominal hysterectomy, blood transfusion was a significant risk factor for surgical site infection in patients who experienced blood loss of less than 500 mL. ...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Young H,Berumen C,Knepper B,Miller A,Silverman M,Gilmartin H,Wodrich E,Alexander S,Price CS

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transmission rate of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) to gloves or gowns of healthcare personnel (HCP) caring for MRSA patients in a non-intensive care unit setting was 5.4%. Contamination rates were higher among HCP performing direct patient care and when patients had detectable MRSA on their bo...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Nadimpalli G,O'Hara LM,Pineles L,Lebherz K,Johnson JK,Calfee DP,Miller LG,Morgan DJ,Harris AD

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case-control study of patients with and without confirmed UTI was performed to identify risk factors for nosocomial UTI. Duration of hospitalization, unit of admission, history of diabetes mellitus or debilitating diseases, and duration and number of urinary catheters were independently associated with increased ris...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Al-Helali NS,Al-Asmary SM,Abdel-Fattah MM,Al-Jabban TM,Al-Bamri AL

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE. To quantify the association between admission to an intensive care unit (ICU) room most recently occupied by a patient positive for extended-spectrum β-lactamase (EBSL)-producing gram-negative bacteria and acquisition of infection or colonization with that pathogen. DESIGN. Retrospective cohort study. SETTI...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Ajao AO,Johnson JK,Harris AD,Zhan M,McGregor JC,Thom KA,Furuno JP

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the efficacy of a standard cleaning and sterilization protocol employed during reuse of cardiac electrophysiology catheters on the infectivity of duck hepatitis B virus (DHBV; a surrogate for human hepatitis B virus), bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV; a surrogate for human hepatitis C virus), and h...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Druce JD,Russell JS,Birch CJ,Vickery K,Harper RW,Smolich JJ

更新日期：2005-08-01 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：:BACKGROUND In 2015, Denmark launched an automated surveillance system for hospital-acquired infections, the Hospital-Acquired Infections Database (HAIBA). OBJECTIVE To describe the algorithm used in HAIBA, to determine its concordance with point prevalence surveys (PPSs), and to present trends for hospital-acquired ba...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Gubbels S,Nielsen J,Voldstedlund M,Kristensen B,Schønheyder HC,Ellermann-Eriksen S,Engberg JH,Møller JK,Østergaard C,Mølbak K

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:An epidemiological investigation was conducted to determine risk factors for adverse reactions among patients in hospitals and the possibility of extrinsic or intrinsic contamination of intravenous solutions. DESIGN:A retrospective cohort study was conducted to identify solutions associated with adverse reac...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Daufenbach LZ,Alves WA,de Azevedo JB,Arduino MJ,Forster TS,Carmo EH,Hatch DL

更新日期：2006-07-01 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：:Traditional antibiograms can guide empiric antibiotic therapy, but they may miss differences in resistance across patient subpopulations. In this retrospective descriptive study, we constructed and validated antibiograms using International Classification of Disease, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes and other discrete da...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Chao YY,Kociolek LK,Zheng XT,Scardina T,Patel SJ

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with no risk factors for malaria was hospitalized in New York City with Plasmodium falciparum infection. After investigating all potential sources of infection, we concluded the patient had been exposed to malaria while hospitalized less than 3 weeks earlier. Molecular genotyping implicated patient-to-patien...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Lee EH,Adams EH,Madison-Antenucci S,Lee L,Barnwell JW,Whitehouse J,Clement E,Bajwa W,Jones LE,Lutterloh E,Weiss D,Ackelsberg J

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BACKGROUND The National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) definition was revised as of January 2015 to exclude funguria and lower bacteriuria levels. We evaluated the effect of the CAUTI definition change on NHSN-defined central-line-associated bloodstream infection (...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Fakih MG,Groves C,Bufalino A,Sturm LK,Hendrich AL

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Ambulatory healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) occur frequently in children and are associated with morbidity. Less is known about ambulatory HAI costs. This study estimated additional costs associated with pediatric ambulatory central-line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs), catheter-associated ...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Rinke ML,Oyeku SO,Ford WJH,Heo M,Saiman L,DeLaMora P,Rabin B,Zachariah P,Rosenberg RE,Mirhaji P,Obaro-Best O,Drasher M,Klein E,Peshansky A,Bundy DG

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To trace the routes of transmission and sources of Staphylococcus aureus found in the surgical wound during cardiothoracic surgery and to investigate the possibility of reducing wound contamination, with regard to total counts of bacteria and S. aureus, by wearing special scrub suits. METHODS:A total of 65 ...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Tammelin A,Hambraeus A,Ståhle E

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether the molecular epidemiological characteristics of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) had changed in a level III neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). DESIGN:Retrospective review of medical records. SETTING:Level III NICU of a university-affiliated children's hospital in Ne...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Carey AJ,Della-Latta P,Huard R,Wu F,Graham PL 3rd,Carp D,Saiman L

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) increase the likelihood of readmission. DESIGN:Retrospective matched cohort study for the years 2008-2009. SETTING:Acute care hospitals. PARTICIPANTS:Medicare recipients. CLABSI and readmission status were determined by linking N...

journal_title：Infection control and hospital epidemiology

authors： Khong CJ,Baggs J,Kleinbaum D,Cochran R,Jernigan JA

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00