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epic3: guidelines for preventing infections associated with the use of intravascular access devices.

The Journal of hospital infection

Elliott T, Timsit JF.
PMID: 24928789
J Hosp Infect. 2014 Jul;87(3):182. doi: 10.1016/j.jhin.2014.02.014. Epub 2014 May 06.

No abstract available.

A systematic approach for developing a ventilator-associated pneumonia prevention bundle.

American journal of infection control

Speck K, Rawat N, Weiner NC, Tujuba HG, Farley D, Berenholtz S.
PMID: 26874407
Am J Infect Control. 2016 Jun 01;44(6):652-6. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2015.12.020. Epub 2016 Feb 10.

BACKGROUND: Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is among the most common type of health care-associated infection in the intensive care unit and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Existing VAP prevention intervention bundles vary widely on the interventions included and...

Infection control III: Infection prevention and control as mediators.

American journal of infection control

Horowitz HW.
PMID: 28283203
Am J Infect Control. 2017 May 01;45(5):519-520. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2017.01.034. Epub 2017 Mar 07.

No abstract available.

A practical guide to systematic literature reviews and meta-analyses in infection prevention: Planning, challenges, and execution.

American journal of infection control

Schweizer ML, Nair R.
PMID: 28918302
Am J Infect Control. 2017 Nov 01;45(11):1292-1294. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2017.08.004. Epub 2017 Sep 13.

Systematic literature reviews and meta-analyses are important research designs used to summarize and derive conclusions about the collective evidence on a focused research question in a structured, reproducible manner. The goal of this Methodology Minute is to describe how...

Hospital epidemiology and infection control in acute-care settings.

Clinical microbiology reviews

Sydnor ER, Perl TM.
PMID: 21233510
Clin Microbiol Rev. 2011 Jan;24(1):141-73. doi: 10.1128/CMR.00027-10.

Health care-associated infections (HAIs) have become more common as medical care has grown more complex and patients have become more complicated. HAIs are associated with significant morbidity, mortality, and cost. Growing rates of HAIs alongside evidence suggesting that active...

Department of Health and Human Services releases new immersive simulation experience to improve infection control knowledge and practices among health care workers and students.

American journal of infection control

Farley JE, Doughman D, Jeeva R, Jeffries P, Stanley JM.
PMID: 21784556
Am J Infect Control. 2012 Apr;40(3):258-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2011.03.024. Epub 2011 Jul 23.

In this article, we review a newly developed evidence-based immersive simulation experience for use with health care personnel and students. The article provides information necessary for infection control professionals to understand the development process of the training. Evidence supporting...

[Infections and the possibility of controlling them].

Polski merkuriusz lekarski : organ Polskiego Towarzystwa Lekarskiego

Płusa T.
PMID: 21675129
Pol Merkur Lekarski. 2011 May;30(179):310-2.

Infections are accompanied by people from the beginning of the world. They were responsible for the disasters in the history of mankind. For this reason, the analyze of the nature of viral and bacterial pathogens is still conducting, with...

Bacteria cut by 'up to 95%' in copper trial.

Health estate

[No authors listed]
PMID: 19044152
Health Estate. 2008 Nov;62(10):58-9.

The first results from an 18-month trial at Birmingham's Selly Oak Hospital, which has seen a range of items in one ward, including taps, door handles, sink fittings, push plates and light switches made from "conventional" plastic and stainless...

HHS offers plan to tackle health-care-associated infections.

American journal of health-system pharmacy : AJHP : official journal of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists

Lavine G.
PMID: 19233984
Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2009 Mar 01;66(5):428-30. doi: 10.2146/news090020.

No abstract available.

[Infection control in Hamamatsu Medical Center].

Rinsho byori. The Japanese journal of clinical pathology

Yano K.
PMID: 12924251
Rinsho Byori. 2003 Jul;51(7):663-8.

Since the department of Infection Control was established in Hamamatsu Medical Center, a 615-bed community teaching hospital, we have been practicing infection control program including surveillance, coping with needle stick injuries, introducing Interlink system, PPD testing and influenza vaccination...

Social marketing: a behavior change technology for infection control.

American journal of infection control

Mah MW, Deshpande S, Rothschild ML.
PMID: 16945693
Am J Infect Control. 2006 Sep;34(7):452-7. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2005.12.015.

Changing health care worker behaviors is a core function of infection control programs. The social change technologies of education and institutional policy are limited in their capacity to achieve desired behaviors on a sustained basis because they do not...

[The role of clinical microbiology in infection control].

Zhonghua yi xue za zhi

Ni YX, Yang L.
PMID: 16681898
Zhonghua Yi Xue Za Zhi. 2006 Mar 07;86(9):581-3.

No abstract available.

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