abstract：:In 1982 the Centers for Disease Control published a set of recommendations and measures to protect persons working in health care settings or performing mortician services from possible exposure to the human immunodeficiency virus. This study of a number of funeral homes in the Fort Worth area was designed to determin...

journal_title：American journal of infection control

authors： Nwanyanwu OC,Tabasuri TH,Harris GR

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a 17-month period (01/11/85-05/31/86) 225 cases of nosocomial diarrhea were identified in a children's hospital. Diarrhea was considered to be nosocomial if it began at least 72 hours after the patient's hospital admission or within 3 days after discharge. One or more routine diagnostic studies for identificati...

journal_title：American journal of infection control

authors： Brady MT,Pacini DL,Budde CT,Connell MJ

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the implementation of hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccination programs for hospital workers, we mailed questionnaires to all 229 licensed Michigan hospitals. The response rate was 96% (221/229); of these, 68% (150/221) had vaccination programs. Although multiple hospital characteristics were associated with the ...

journal_title：American journal of infection control

authors： Sienko DG,Anda RF,McGee HB,Weber JA,Remington PL,Hall WN,Gunn RA

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The optimal frequency for changing pressure monitoring tubing and flush solution that minimizes catheter-related infection and contains cost has not yet been established. We conducted a pilot study to examine the effects of three protocols on catheter-related infection: group I, change of flush solution and pressure m...

journal_title：American journal of infection control

authors： Covey M,McLane C,Smith N,Matasic J,Holm K

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey of purchasers of The APIC Curriculum for Infection Control Practice was conducted in early 1985 by the APIC Curriculum Committee to determine characteristics of purchasers, usability of the text, reasons for purchase, and availability of references cited. Data were obtained from 342 (54.3%) respondents to a n...

journal_title：American journal of infection control

authors： Checko PJ,Soule BM,Jackson MM

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The failure of the 1982-1983 influenza vaccine to protect elderly NHCU residents from clinical infection with influenza A/Philippines/2/82 resulted primarily from antigenic drift of the epidemic strain, inasmuch as the attack rates in the vaccinated and nonvaccinated patients were not significantly different. This exp...

journal_title：American journal of infection control

authors： Arroyo JC,Postic B,Brown A,Harrison K,Birgenheier R,Dowda H

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Videourodynamic studies (VUS) of the lower urinary tract are useful in the evaluation of complicated voiding dysfunctions. These studies involve placement of urethral and rectal catheters, measurement of pressures during bladder filling and voiding, and simultaneous fluoroscopic cystourethrography. A cluster of five c...

journal_title：American journal of infection control

authors： Talbot GH,Doorley M,Banner MP

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The infection control team in a university hospital designed, implemented, and evaluated a program to audit infection control policies. Process surveillance techniques of observation and monitoring were used during surveys of patient care areas to evaluate infection control practices. Nineteen unit surveys have been c...

journal_title：American journal of infection control

authors： Friedman C,Richter D,Skylis T,Brown D

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Respondents (N = 473) from a randomized stratified sample (N = 600) of U.S. hospital ICPs in a national survey sponsored by the Certification Board of Infection Control were asked to rate specific task, knowledge, and ability statements related to infection control for frequency and importance. The questions included ...

journal_title：American journal of infection control

authors： Shannon R,McArthur BJ,Weinstein S,Pugliese G,Jackson MM,Lynch P,Tsinzo M,Serkey J,McGuire N

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six hundred twenty-two isolates from 554 samples taken from hands of 103 hospital personnel and 50 controls were obtained over a mean period of 35 days. Eighty-five were obtained immediately before and after handwashing (HW), the remainder after HW only. The relationship of HW agent used, clinical area and job, and fr...

journal_title：American journal of infection control

authors： Larson E

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article contains guidelines for selection and design of audiovisual materials pertinent to the teaching of infection control. Clarity, rate of presentation, and color are emphasized because they may correlate directly with effective presentation and learner comprehension. The use of audiovisual programs may cut p...

journal_title：American journal of infection control

authors： Fishman M

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of nosocomial infections (NI) from January 1971 to April 1981 was conducted in a university-affiliated hospital to examine NI caused by Acinetobacter and to determine whether a rising trend in rates could be detected. Acinetobacter accounted for 85 of 6115 (1.4%) NI. Sites of infection were respiratory tract ...

journal_title：American journal of infection control

authors： Larson E

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are useful in the evaluation of both new and well-established hospital infection control practices for which the benefit is unproven and not obvious. RCTs are often undertaken to resolve controversies, and many of them have a "negative" or inconclusive outcome. Well-designed RCTs wi...

journal_title：American journal of infection control

authors： Burke JP

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection control practitioners working within health care facilities are charged with the providing of in-service education programs for all new employees and volunteers as well as for all hospital departments, at least annually. To be effective, each program should be customized to meet the needs of the group for wh...

journal_title：American journal of infection control

authors： Christel LP

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An obstetrician and two staff members developed rubella and exposed 56 susceptible pregnant women in a large prenatal and family planning clinic. Two women (3.6%) developed rubella at 27 and 38 weeks' gestation and delivered uneventfully. Sixteen hundred clinic and hospital employees were tested, with 79% of the total...

journal_title：American journal of infection control

authors： Fliegel PE,Weinstein WM

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowing where we have come from helps to decide where we should be going. Many principles and practices of modern infection control were developed in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The story is one of halting, yet relentless, progress. The history of these discoveries and their application to infection co...

journal_title：American journal of infection control

authors： White FM

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of nosocomial versus community-acquired infection is an important one in terms of hospital surveillance and infection control. Risk factors, time of onset, and type of organism are presented in tabular form to assist in classifying infection in the newborn. ...

journal_title：American journal of infection control

authors： Gottschalk SK,Pitre JB,Schuth CR

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00