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• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·Information for Readers

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• Major Articles

  • ·First step to reducing infection risk as a system: Evaluation of infection prevention processes for 71 hospitals

    Página :950-954

    Mohamad G. Fakih, Michelle Heavens, Carol J. Ratcliffe, Ann Hendrich

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  • ·Reducing health care-associated infections: Patients want to be engaged and learn about infection prevention

    Página :955-958

    Unnur Gudnadottir, Jessica Fritz, Sara Zerbel, Alyssa Bernardo, Ajay K. Sethi, Nasia Safdar

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  • ·Tensions inherent in the evolving role of the infection preventionist

    Página :959-964

    Laurie J. Conway, Victoria H. Raveis, Monika Pogorzelska-Maziarz, May Uchida, Patricia W. Stone, Elaine L. Larson

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  • ·Is evidence guiding practice? Reported versus observed adherence to contact precautions: A pilot study

    Página :965-970

    Mary Ann Jessee, Lorraine C. Mion

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  • ·“Recognizing rapport”: Health professionals’ lived experience of caring for patients under transmission-based precautions in an Australian health care setting

    Página :971-975

    Mary-Rose Godsell, Ramon Z. Shaban, Jenny Gamble

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  • ·Hand hygiene compliance in patients under contact precautions and in the general hospital population

    Página :976-978

    Martín Almaguer-Leyva, Lidia Mendoza-Flores, Ana Gabriela Medina-Torres, Ana Gabriela Salinas-Caballero, Jose Antonio Vidaña-Amaro, Elvira Garza-Gonzalez, Adrián Camacho-Ortiz

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  • ·Patient empowerment in a hand hygiene program: Differing points of view between patients/family members and health care workers in Asian culture

    Página :979-983

    Sung-Ching Pan, Kuei-Lien Tien, I-Chen Hung, Yu-Jiun Lin, Ya-Ling Yang, Ming-Chin Yang, Ming-Jiuh Wang, Shan-Chwen Chang, Yee-Chun Chen

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  • ·A multicenter study using positive deviance for improving hand hygiene compliance

    Página :984-988

    Alexandre R. Marra, Danilo Teixeira Noritomi, Adilson J. Westheimer Cavalcante, Thiago Zinsly Sampaio Camargo, Renata Puzzo Bortoleto, Marcelino Souza Durao Junior, Anucha Apisarnthanarak, Claudia Laselva, Walace de Souza Pimentel, Leonardo Jose Rolim Ferraz, Maria Fátima dos Santos Cardoso, Elivane da Silva Victor, Oscar Fernando Pavão dos Santos, Miguel Cendoroglo Neto, Michael B. Edmond, Positive Deviance For Hand Hygiene Study Group †

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  • ·Comprehensive survey of hand hygiene measurement and improvement practices in the Veterans Health Administration

    Página :989-993

    Heather Schacht Reisinger, Jun Yin, Lewis Radonovich, V. Troy Knighton, Richard A. Martinello, Michael J. Hodgson, Eli Perencevich

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  • ·Is hand hygiene before putting on nonsterile gloves in the intensive care unit a waste of health care worker time?—A randomized controlled trial

    Página :994-996

    Clare Rock, Anthony D. Harris, Nicholas G. Reich, J. Kristie Johnson, Kerri A. Thom

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  • ·Measuring hand hygiene compliance in a hematology-oncology unit: A comparative study of methodologies

    Página :997-1000

    Lidiane Soares Sodré da Costa, Vanessa Maia Neves, Alexandre R. Marra, Thiago Zinsly Sampaio Camargo, Maria Fátima dos Santos Cardoso, Elivane da Silva Victor, Cristina Vogel, Fátima Araci Tahira Colman, Claudia Regina Laselva, Oscar Fernando Pavão dos Santos, Michael B. Edmond

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  • ·Improving hand hygiene compliance in the anesthesia working room work area: More than just more hand rubs

    Página :1001-1006

    Simone Scheithauer, Anna Rosarius, Steffen Rex, Peter Post, Hans Heisel, Vedranka Krizanovic, Roland Schulze-Röbbecke, Rolf Rossaint, Sebastian W. Lemmen

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  • ·Acceptability and tolerability of liquid versus gel and standard versus virucidal alcohol-based hand rub formulations among dental students

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    Fritz Stauffer, Marion Griess, Gabriele Pleininger, Anara Zhumadilova, Ojan Assadian

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  • ·Changes in hand hygiene compliance after a multimodal intervention and seasonality variation

    Página :1012-1016

    Rodrigo Pires dos Santos, Loriane Rita Konkewicz, Fabiano Marcio Nagel, Thiago Lisboa, Renan Cortez Xavier, Thalita Jacoby, Sandra Ludwig Gastal, Nádia Mora Kuplich, Márcia Rosane Pires, Carem Gorniak Lovatto, Caroline Deutschendorf, Ricardo Kuchenbecker

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  • ·Immunizing health care workers against influenza: A glimpse into the challenges with voluntary programs and considerations for mandatory policies

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    Susan Quach, Jennifer A. Pereira, Jeffrey C. Kwong, Sherman Quan, Lois Crowe, Maryse Guay, Julie A. Bettinger, Public Health Agency of Canada/Canadian Institutes of Health Research Influenza Research Network (PCIRN) Program Delivery and Evaluation Theme Group

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  • ·Evaluation of respiratory protection programs and practices in California hospitals during the 2009-2010 H1N1 influenza pandemic

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    Stella Beckman, Barbara Materna, Suzi Goldmacher, Jennifer Zipprich, Maryann D'Alessandro, Debra Novak, Robert Harrison

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  • ·Understanding the burden of influenza infection among adults in Canadian hospitals: A comparison of the 2009-2010 pandemic season with the prepandemic and postpandemic seasons

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    Robyn Mitchell, Geoffrey Taylor, Allison McGeer, Charles Frenette, Kathryn N. Suh, Alice Wong, Kevin Katz, Krista Wilkinson, Barbara Amihod, Denise Gravel, Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program

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  • ·Multi-institutional outbreak of Burkholderia cepacia complex associated with contaminated mannitol solution prepared in compounding pharmacy

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    Maria Beatriz Souza Dias, Larissa G.T. Cavassin, Valeska Stempliuk, Luciene S. Xavier, Renata D. Lobo, Jorge L.M. Sampaio, Antonio Carlos Pignatari, Vera L. Borrasca, Ana Luiza Bierrenbach, Cristiana M. Toscano

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  • ·Predictors of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization at hospital admission

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    Katherine Torres, Priya Sampathkumar

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  • ·Comparison of control strategies for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

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    Mary T. Bessesen, Karla Lopez, Karen Guerin, Karen Hendrickson, Shavetta Williams, Susan O'Connor-Wright, Donald Granger

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  • ·Withdrawal of Staphylococcus aureus from intensive care units in Turkey

    Página :1053-1058

    Hakan Erdem, Murat Dizbay, Selma Karabey, Selcuk Kaya, Tuna Demirdal, Iftihar Koksal, Asuman Inan, Ibrahim Erayman, Oznur Ak, Aysegul Ulu-Kilic, Omer Karasahin, Ayhan Akbulut, Nazif Elaldi, Gulden Yilmaz, Aslihan Candevir, Hanefi Cem Gul, Ibak Gonen, Oral Oncul, Turan Aslan, Emel Azak, Recep Tekin, Zeliha Kocak Tufan, Ercan Yenilmez, Bilgin Arda, Gokay Gungor, Birsen Cetin, Sukran Kose, Hale Turan, Halis Akalin, Oguz Karabay, Aygul Dogan-Celik, Adem Albayrak, Tumer Guven, Guven Celebi, Nail Ozgunes, Yasemin Ersoy, Fatma Sirmatel, Nefise Oztoprak, Ilker Inanc Balkan, Fatma Nurhayat Bayazit, Hasan Ucmak, Serkan Oncu, Davut Ozdemir, Derya Ozturk-Engin, Mehmet Bitirgen, Fehmi Tabak, Filiz Akata, Ay?e Willke, Levent Gorenek, Salman Shaheer Ahmed, Yesim Tasova, Asim Ulcay, Saim Dayan, Saban Esen, Hakan Leblebicioglu, Begin Altun, Serhat Unal

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  • ·Efficacy of an infection control program in reducing ventilator-associated pneumonia in a Chinese neonatal intensive care unit

    Página :1059-1064

    Qi Zhou, Shoo K. Lee, Si-yuan Jiang, Chao Chen, Majeeda Kamaluddeen, Xiao-jing Hu, Chuan-qing Wang, Yun Cao

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  • ·Compliance of Jordanian registered nurses with infection control guidelines: A national population-based study

    Página :1065-1068

    Omar M. AL-Rawajfah, Issa M. Hweidi, Murad Alkhalaileh, Yousef Saleh Khader, Suhaila A. Alshboul

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  • ·Impact of an antimicrobial stewardship program with multidisciplinary cooperation in a community public teaching hospital in Taiwan

    Página :1069-1072

    Yu-Shiuan Lin, I-Fen Lin, Yung-Feng Yen, Pei-Ching Lin, Yu-chih Shiu, Hsing-Yi Hu, Ying-Pi Yang

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• Practice Forum

  • ·iPads, droids, and bugs: Infection prevention for mobile handheld devices at the point of care

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    Mary Lou Manning, James Davis, Erin Sparnon, Raylene M. Ballard

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  • ·Infection prevention in anesthesia practice: A tool to assess risk and compliance

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    Susan A. Dolan, Joan Heath, Gail Potter-Bynoe, Robin A. Stackhouse

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• Methodology Minute

  • ·Breaking down P values and 95% confidence intervals: What infection preventionists should know about statistical certainty

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    Katherine Ellingson

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• Clinical Case Study

  • ·Healthcare-associated infections studies project: An American Journal of Infection Control and National Healthcare Safety Network data quality collaboration—Ventilator-associated event 1, 2013

    Página :1085-1086

    Katherine Allen-Bridson, Cindy Gross, Joan N. Hebden, Gloria C. Morrell, Marc-Oliver Wright, Teresa Horan

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• Special Article

  • ·Community-based infections and the potential role of common touch surfaces as vectors for the transmission of infectious agents in home and community settings

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    Elizabeth Scott

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• Brief Reports

  • ·Veterans Affairs methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus prevention initiative associated with a sustained reduction in transmissions and health care-associated infections

    Página :1093-1095

    Martin E. Evans, Stephen M. Kralovic, Loretta A. Simbartl, Ron W. Freyberg, D. Scott Obrosky, Gary A. Roselle, Rajiv Jain

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  • ·Developing a new national approach to surveillance for ventilator-associated events: Executive summary

    Página :1096-1099

    Shelley S. Magill, Michael Klompas, Robert Balk, Suzanne M. Burns, Clifford S. Deutschman, Daniel Diekema, Scott Fridkin, Linda Greene, Alice Guh, David Gutterman, Beth Hammer, David Henderson, Dean R. Hess, Nicholas S. Hill, Teresa Horan, Marin Kollef, Mitchell Levy, Edward Septimus, Carole VanAntwerpen, Don Wright, Pamela Lipsett

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  • ·Risk factors for and impact of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization in patients in a medical intensive care unit

    Página :1100-1101

    Christina C. Chen, Steven E. Pass

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  • ·Unrelated strain methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization of health care workers in a neonatal intensive care unit: Findings of an outbreak investigation

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    Ed Mangini, Pinchi Srinivasan, Janice Burns, Mimi Lim, Noriel Mariano, Mahmoud Hassanein, Joseph Abularrage, Carl Urban, Sorana Segal-Maurer

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  • ·Preventing the transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus at a tertiary care cancer center in Japan: Quality improvement report

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    Ichiro Kawamura, Norio Ohmagari, Sachiyo Noda, Tomoyo Sugiyama, Hanako Kurai

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  • ·Variability in hand hygiene practices among internal medicine interns

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    Lauren Block, Robert Habicht, Fareedat O. Oluyadi, Albert W. Wu, Sanjay V. Desai, Timothy Niessen, Kathryn Novello Silva, Nora Oliver, Leonard Feldman

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  • ·Just clean your hands: Measuring the effect of a patient safety initiative on driving transformational change in a health care system

    Página :1109-1111

    Giulio DiDiodato

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  • ·Prediction of socially desirable and discreet hand hygiene behaviors

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    Chris D. Fluckinger

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  • ·Adherence to hand hygiene in high-risk units of a tertiary care hospital in India

    Página :1114-1115

    Manisha Biswal, Neena Vir Singh, Rupinder Kaur, Tissamol Sebastian, Rinzin Dolkar, Suma B. Appananavar, Gagandeep Singh, Neelam Taneja

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  • ·Inappropriate use of antibiotics and Clostridium difficile infection

    Página :1116-1118

    Jocelyn A. Srigley, Annie Brooks, Melani Sung, Deborah Yamamura, Shariq Haider, Dominik Mertz

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  • ·Algorithm to reduce unnecessary isolation days in patients with a history of colonization by antimicrobial-resistant organisms

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    Dominik Mertz, Khuloud Nuri, Cindy O'Neill, Mark Loeb, Hamilton Health Sciences Infection Prevention and Control Team

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  • ·Nasal colonization of mecA-positive, oxacillin-susceptible, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates among nursing staff in an Iranian teaching hospital

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    Elham Jannati, Mohsen Arzanlou, Shahram Habibzadeh, Saeed Mohammadi, Parisa Ahadi, Behnam Mohammadi-Ghalehbin, Hadi Peeri Dogaheh, Solmaz Dibah, Ebrahim Kazemi

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  • ·Successful control of an echovirus 6 meningitis outbreak in a neonatal intensive care unit in central Greece

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    Nikolaos Siafakas, Maria Goudesidou, Katerina Gaitana, Antonios Gounaris, Aristea Velegraki, Kleoniki Pantelidi, Loukia Zerva, Efthymia Petinaki

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  • ·A combined culture-based methodology for surveillance of hospital-acquired infections and timely remedial action in a tertiary care hospital in Delhi, India

    Página :1129-1130

    Subhash C. Arya, Nirmala Agarwal, Shekhar Agarwal, Geetha Murali, Umanga Chattri

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  • ·Health care-associated infections in hematology-oncology patients with neutropenia: A method of surveillance

    Página :1131-1133

    Karim Yaqub Ibrahim, Ligia Camera Pierrotti, Maristela Pinheiro Freire, Patricia Pinheiro Gutierrez, Laiane do Prado Gil Duarte, Marcelo Bellesso, Juliana Pereira, Dalton de Alencar Fischer Chamone, Edson Abdala

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  • ·Microfiber and steam for environmental cleaning during an outbreak

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    Mardi Abernethy, Elizabeth Gillespie, Kylie Snook, Rhonda L. Stuart

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• Letters to the Editor

  • ·Disinfection of iPad to reduce contamination with Clostridium difficile and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

    Página :1136-1137

    Lee M. Kiedrowski, Abhilash Perisetti, Mark H. Loock, Margaret L. Khaitsa, Dubert M. Guerrero

     
  • ·Clinical- and cost-ineffectiveness of targeted methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus screening of high-risk patients admitted to a low-prevalence teaching hospital

    Página :1137-1138

    Burke A. Cunha, Paul Schoch, Eileen D. Abruzzo

     
  • ·Moving forward with hospital cleaning

    Página :1138-1139

    Brett G. Mitchell, Stephanie J. Dancer, Ramon Z. Shaban, Nicholas Graves

    
  • ·Microorganism contamination of mezuzahs in a tertiary care hospital in Brooklyn, New York City

    Página :1139-1140

    Ceres T. Tiu, Alejandro Villegas, Khawar Khurshid, Catalina Salinas, Lauren Bertelle, Monica Ghitan, Yu Shia Lin, Edward K. Chapnick

    
  • ·Measles and pertussis outbreaks: An important role for travel clinics

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    Alwyn Rapose

    
  • ·Clostridium difficile infection: How safe are the household contacts?

    Página :1140-1141

    Mohit Girotra, Rtika R. Abraham, Mrinal Pahwa

    
  • ·Delays in accessing radiology in patients under contact precautions because of colonization with vancomycin-resistant enterococci

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    Surendra Karki, Karin Leder, Allen C. Cheng

    
  • ·Knowledge and self-perceived practices regarding infection control among nursing students of a tertiary care hospital

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    Rafaqat Bota, Mushtaq Ahmed, Muhammad Salah Jamali, Quratulain Azeem

     
  • ·Raising awareness about hygiene behavior education for nursing assistants in China

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    Wei Chen, Xian-Cai Rao, Xiao-Mei Hu, Hong-Ming Tian, Yi-Ping Su

    
  • ·The Cocoon Strategy: Does it work for Latin American countries?

    Página :1144-1145

    Brenda Cáceres-Mejía, Reneé Pereyra-Elías, Luis Suárez-Ognio

    
  • ·Avian influenza remains a challenge to China in the post-SARS era

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    Yi Zhang, Guo-Qing Zang, Zheng-Hao Tang, Xiao-Hua Chen, Yong-Sheng Yu