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• • ·Table of Contents

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• • ·Editorial Board

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• Commentary

  • ·Staffing and structure of infection prevention and control programs

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    Denise M. Murphy

    

• Major Articles

  • ·Staffing and structure of infection prevention and control programs

    Page :351-357

    Patricia W. Stone, Andrew Dick, Monika Pogorzelska, Teresa C. Horan, E. Yoko Furuya, Elaine Larson

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  • ·A cross-Canada survey of infection prevention and control in long-term care facilities

    Page :358-363

    Dick E. Zoutman, B. Douglas Ford, Jim Gauthier

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  • ·The electronic medical record as a tool for infection surveillance: Successful automation of device-days

    Page :364-370

    Marc-Oliver Wright, Adrienne Fisher, Maria John, Kate Reynolds, Lance R. Peterson, Ari Robicsek

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  • ·Predicting the anticipated emotional and behavioral responses to an avian flu outbreak

    Page :371-380

    Bruce W. Smith, Virginia S. Kay, Timothy V. Hoyt, Michael L. Bernard

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  • ·Evaluation of the filtration performance of 21 N95 filtering face piece respirators after prolonged storage

    Page :381-386

    Dennis J. Viscusi, Mike Bergman, Edward Sinkule, Ronald E. Shaffer

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  • ·Surgical site infection: Incidence and impact on hospital utilization and treatment costs

    Page :387-397

    Gregory de Lissovoy, Kathy Fraeman, Valerie Hutchins, Denise Murphy, David Song, Brian B. Vaughn

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  • ·Identifying opportunities for quality improvement in surgical site infection prevention

    Page :398-402

    Anna R. Gagliardi, Cagla Eskicioglu, Margaret McKenzie, Darlene Fenech, Avery Nathens, Robin McLeod

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  • ·Mathematical modeling of hepatitis C virus transmission in hemodialysis

    Page :403-407

    Franck Laporte, Gérard Tap, Acil Jaafar, Karine Saune-Sandres, Nassim Kamar, Lionel Rostaing, Jacques Izopet

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  • ·Microbiologic assessment of disposable sterile endoscopic sheaths to replace high-level disinfection in reprocessing: A prospective clinical trial with nasopharygoscopes

    Page :408-413

    Carla J. Alvarado, Ashley G. Anderson, Dennis G. Maki

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• Brief Reports

  • ·An audit of vaccination coverage among vaccination service workers in Puglia, Italy

    Page :414-416

    Silvia Tafuri, Domenico Martinelli, Giovanni Caputi, Annamaria Arbore, Pietro Luigi Lopalco, Cinzia Germinario, Rosa Prato

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  • ·Use of surgical face masks to reduce the incidence of the common cold among health care workers in Japan: A randomized controlled trial

    Page :417-419

    Joshua L. Jacobs, Sachiko Ohde, Osamu Takahashi, Yasuharu Tokuda, Fumio Omata, Tsuguya Fukui

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  • ·Three questions to screen for postdischarge surgical site infections

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    Andreas Knaust, André Moussa, Nikolaos I. Stilianakis, Thomas Eikmann, Caroline Herr

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  • ·How can immunization coverage in urban counties be improved? A pilot study of a Kansas county

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    Angelia M. Paschal, J’Vonnah Maryman, Julie Oler-Manske

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  • ·Erratum

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  • ·Evidence of hepatitis C virus–specific interferon gamma–positive T cells in health care workers in an infectious disease department

    Page :426-429

    Alessandro Perrella, Stella Grattacaso, Anna d’Antonio, Luigi Atripaldi, Costanza Sbreglia, MariaRosaria Gnarini, Pio Conti, Jacopo Vecchiet, Oreste Perrella

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• Letters to the Editor

  • ·Improving influenza vaccination to health care workers

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    Linda Primus

     
  • ·Re: Prevalence of hospital-acquired infection in a Moroccan university hospital

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    Subhash C. Arya, Nirmala Agarwal, Shekhar Agarwal

    
  • ·Outbreak of Burkholderia cepacia bacteremia in immunocompetent children caused by contaminated nebulized sulbutamol in Saudi Arabia

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    Ziad A. Memish, Gwen Stephens, Hanan H. Balkhy, Gwen Cunningham, Christine Francis, Greg Poff, On behalf of the Saudi National Guard Infection Prevention and Control Group

    
  • ·The need for international benchmark for health care-associated infections

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    Victor D. Rosenthal

    

• APIC Annual Conference Abstracts

  • ·Contents

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    Plan Plan
  • ·Abstract Awards

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    Plan Plan  
  • ·Abstracts and Posters Were Submitted in Two Different Formats

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    Plan Plan

• Poster Abstracts

  • ·An Outbreak of VanB-Type Enterococcus faecium Colonization That Showed Heterogeneous Resistance to Vancomycin in a University Hospital in Japan

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  • ·Analyzing Antibiotic Sensitivities for Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus to Provide Treatment Recommendations to Community Physicians

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  • ·Antibiotic Resistance Pattern of Urinary Tract Isolates from Outpatients in Sirte, Libya During the Period, 2005 - 2007

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  • ·Detection of Heterogeneous Vancomycin Intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (hetero-VISA) in MRSA of Japanese Clinical Isolates

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  • ·Identification and Control of Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (KPC) in a Community Hospital

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  • ·Increasing In vitro Resistance to Moxifloxacin and Gatifloxacin Among S. epidermidis Isolates Recovered from Patients with Endophthalmitis Following Cataract Surger

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  • ·Significant Increase in USA 300 Community-Acquired-Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus CA-MRSA as a Cause of Healthcare-Acquired MRSA Infections HA-MRSA-I

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  • ·A Novel Disinfectant Chemistry for the Control of Clostridium difficile Spores on Hard Surfaces

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  • ·Activity of Bleach Solutions Against MRSA Using a Pigskin Model

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  • ·Bacterial Growth on Cleaned Reusable ECG Leadwires: Do Cleaning Methods Matter?

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  • ·Effect of Long-Term Disinfection on Clinical Contact Surfaces

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  • ·Effectiveness of a Lotion-Based Hand Treatment Against Spore-Forming Bacteria, Including Clostridium Difficile

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  • ·Effectiveness of Alcohols, Hand Rubs and Scrubs Against Murine Norovirus - A Surrogate of Human Norovirus

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  • ·Efficacy and Safety of Glutaraldehyde-Based High Level Disinfectant Products

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  • ·Efficacy of a Diluted Bleach Solution Against Clostridium difficile Spores

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  • ·Evaluation of Quat Absorption and Efficacy of Cleaning Cloths

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  • ·In Vitro Microbicidal Characterization Study for MR06B7, A New Alcohol-Based Hand Rub Enhanced Inactivation Efficacy Against Non-Enveloped Viruses

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  • ·Limited Efficacy of Hand Washing Against Spores of Clostridium difficile and Surrogate Organisms

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  • ·Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Present on Dental Student Laptop Computers

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  • ·Novel Approach for the Validation of Disinfectants Against Hepatitis C Virus

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  • ·Rapid Containment of a Norovirus Outbreak in an Acute Care Hospital Rehabilitation Unit

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  • ·The Assessment of the Sporicidal Activity of Selected Environmental Surface Disinfectants Using Spores of Clostridium difficile

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  • ·Biocontainment Unit Rationale and Infection Control Interface

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  • ·Drive Through to Prevent the Flu (Or Anything Else That's Bugging You) A Model for Mass Medication Distribution in a Public Health Emergency

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  • ·Influx of Communicable Patients: Testing Surge Capacity with Community Outbreak of Norovirus

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  • ·Norovirus Made Easy? Lessons Learned From a Disaster Exercise Using New Tools and Procedures

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  • ·Pandemic Planning…..All Roads Lead to the Hospital

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  • ·Survey of Community Residents to Assess Readiness for a Pandemic

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  • ·Use of Mass Vaccination Drills to Increase Employee Influenza Vaccination Rates

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  • ·Are We Wasting or Saving Dollars-in the Dialysis Centres?

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  • ·Cost-Effectiveness of PCR Screening for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus at a Large Regional Hospital

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  • ·Risk Factors for MRSA Colonization in the Intensive Care Unit

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  • ·Urinary Tract Infection Rates Among Medicare Patients: Implications for the Medicare Inpatient Payment System

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  • ·A Multi-Faceted Approach to Reducing Risk of Bloodstream Infections for Pediatric Rehabilitation Patients Receiving Total Parenteral Nutrition

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  • ·A Regional Trauma Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Thirty-One Month Experience in Decreasing Central Venous Catheter-Bloodstream Infections (CVC-BSI)

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  • ·Bacterial Meningitis Post-Administration of Epidural Anesthesia in an Obstetrical Patient in a Tertiary Care Facility

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  • ·Bedside Review of Each Central Venous Catheter-Associated Bloodstream Infection (CVC BSI) Identifies Barriers to Prevention of Infection

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  • ·Central Line-Associated Blood-Stream Infections in the ICU: The Struggle to Achieve and the Effort to Maintain Zero

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  • ·Design Features of Needleless Vascular Access Devices May Contribute to an Increase in Microbial Contamination and Subsequent Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infection’s

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  • ·Designing Prevention of Catheter-Related Urinary Tract Infections: How to Achieve a Fifty Percent Reduction

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  • ·Efficacy Testing of a Chest Drain Containing an Antimicrobial Agent

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  • ·Healthcare-Acquired Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in a Community Hospital Setting: How do We Keep Patients Safe and Keep Reimbursement?

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  • ·Impact of a Closed Luer Access Split-Septum Device on Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infection (CR-BSI) Rates in a Community Hospital Adult Population

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  • ·Implement the Site Care Bundle to Decrease Catheter-Related Infections in Cancer Patients with Long-Term Catheters

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  • ·Implementation of the Ventilator Bundle Along with Routine Oral Care Leads to Significant Reduction of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP)

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  • ·In Vitro Evaluation of Viable Microorganisms on the Surface of a Luer Access Device Treated with Two Antimicrobial Agents

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  • ·Maintaining Zero Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections CLA-BSI in the NICU over 2 years

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  • ·Measured Impact of Two Strategies to Lower Surgical Site Infection Rates

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  • ·Methods Used to Decrease Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in a Surgical Intensive Care Unit

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  • ·Multidisciplinary Journey to Reduce Catheter Related Urinary Tract Infections

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  • ·Multi-Faceted Interventions to Prevent Bloodstream MRSA Infections

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  • ·Prevention of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections Using Silver Impregnated Catheters: Does Silver Matter?

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  • ·Reaching Zero Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP) Using a Standard Order Set

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  • ·Reducing Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections - Getting Back to Basics

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  • ·Successful Program to Decrease Catheter-Associated Bacteremia in Interventional Radiology

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  • ·Suction Controls as a Vector for Hospital Acquired Infections

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  • ·Surgical Site Infections in Cesarean Section Patients Using the National Healthcare Safety Network Criteria

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  • ·The Effects of Daily 2% CHG Cloth Bathing on Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infection Rates in a Surgical Intensive Care Unit

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  • ·The Role of Post-op Care in Preventing SSI

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  • ·Use of a Protocol to Remove Urinary Catheters Reduces Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Trauma Patients

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  • ·Use of a Weekly Device Use Ratio to Track Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections Outside the Intensive Care Unit

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  • ·What’s Your Line? Evaluating the Risk Associated With Line Type Following a Sudden Increase in Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections

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  • ·Epidemiology and Risk Factors for Clostridium difficile Infection in Children

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  • ·Implementation of Disposable Blood Pressure Cuffs as a Novel Approach to Reduce Fomite Transmission of Healthcare-Associated (HCA) Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI) in a Community Hospital or Twice Implemented is Once Credible

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  • ·Issues in the Care of a Lepromatous Hansen's Disease Case in an Acute Care Facility

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  • ·Construction Project Anonymous…Where’s the ICRA?

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  • ·Development, Implementation, and Monitoring of a Comprehensive Infection Control Risk Assessment (ICRA) Program for Construction and Renovation

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  • ·Lowering the Curtain on Healthcare-Associated Infections

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  • ·Role of Environment of Care Internal Audits in Maintaining Readiness for External Surveys from Accrediting or Regulatory Bodies

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  • ·Routine Implementation of Water Restriction to Prevent Legionnaires’ Disease

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  • ·A Pilot Study for a Community-Level Infection Control Program

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  • ·A Successful Campaign to Certify Employees in Hand Hygiene Competency

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  • ·APIC Vision 2012 - Creating a Preferred Future: The Role of Local Chapters in Achieving the Strategic Priorities and Objectives

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  • ·Assessment of Knowledge About Hands Cleaning and Isolation Precautions by Physicians in Training at a Hospital in Colombia

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  • ·Availability and Use of Hand Hygiene Products, by Visitors, at the Entry Points of Hospitals

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  • ·Control of Healthcare-Associated Staphylococcus aureus Infections with Syndrome-Based Expanded Precautions

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  • ·Developing a Model for Infection Control in the Independent Healthcare Sector in the United Kingdom

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  • ·Developing an Infection Prevention and Control Program in the Ambulatory Dialysis Care Setting: The Singapore Experience

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  • ·Developing the Role of a Perioperative Infection Preventionist (IP) in an Orthopedic Specialty Hospital

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  • ·Epidemiology of Hospital-Acquired Infections in a Tertiary Care Center in Lebanon

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  • ·Evaluation of an Inpatient Influenza Vaccination Program

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  • ·Fecal Containment Using Indwelling Bowel Catheters to Potentially Prevent Multidrug-Resistant Organism Nosocomial Infections

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  • ·Hospital Infection Prevention Programs with Extremely Limited Resources in Tochigi, Rural and Real Japan: Rx - TRICK or Treat?

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  • ·Implementation of a Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection Bundle in an Academic Medical Center

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  • ·Implementation, Outcomes and Evaluation of Hospital-Wide MRSA Active Surveillance Culture (ASC) Program

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  • ·Incidence of Instrument Compromise in TKA: Comparison of Standard Instruments vs. Single Use Instruments

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  • ·Infection Control Collaboration Around the World; Japan and the United Kingdom

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  • ·Infection Prevention Coaches Impact Hand Hygiene and Influenza Immunization Rates

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  • ·Laser-Assisted Nasal Decolonization of MRSA, (In Vitro, Animal and Pilot Clinical Study)

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  • ·Making Hand Hygiene a Patient Safety Expectation in a Tertiary Medical Center

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  • ·Management & Containment of Patients Colonized/Infected with Carbapenem Resistant Klebsiella Pneumonia CRKP in an Acute Care Hospital in an Endemic Country

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  • ·Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) screening in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Comprehensive Strategy for Infection Prevention

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  • ·Multihospital Study to Evaluate Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections Outside the ICU Setting

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  • ·Negative Predictive Value of Toxin Enzyme Immunoassays for Clostridium difficile in a Hospital Setting

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  • ·Prevalence of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Colonization and Impact of Active Surveillance and Control Measures in a Large Community Hospital System

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  • ·Prospective Attainment of a Zero Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infection Rate: A Clear Enhanced Process to Success

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  • ·Reduction of MRSA and VRE Acquisition by Bundling Daily 2% Chlorhexidine Gluconate (CHG) Bath and Active Surveillance Culture (ASC) for MRSA at a Tertiary Care Hospital

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  • ·Re-Organization of an Infection Prevention and Control Department by Service Lines at a Large Academic Medical Center

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  • ·Return to Hand Hygiene: The Effectiveness of an Innovative Hand Hygiene Campaign

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  • ·Revision of Contact Precaution Requirements for Hospital Visitors

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  • ·Simple and Cost-Effective Strategies to Reduce the Occurrence of Bloodstream Infections (BSIs)

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  • ·Spiral of Quality Improvement: Prevention of Nosocomial Infections in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in Israel

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  • ·Statewide Survey on Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infection Control Practices in Hospitals

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  • ·Unit Based Nurse Liaison: Their Role in Infection Prevention in a Large Tertiary Care Hospital

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  • ·Using a Graduate Infection Control Certificate Program to Educate Infection Control Professionals

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  • ·Using Collaboratives to Develop a Consensus Model of Elements of Australian Prevention and Control Programs

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  • ·Mandatory Reporting of CLA-BSI: Evaluation of a Web-Based Reporting Tool

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  • ·A Collaborative Approach to Outbreak Investigation: Some Interesting Discoveries and New Allies

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  • ·A Virus Among Us: The Importance of Infection Prevention Measures During an Increase in Viral Gastroenteritis Illness on a Geriatric Psychiatric Unit

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  • ·Amino Acid Solutions as a Risk Factor in Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infection Outbreaks Caused by Bacillus sp. in Japan

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  • ·An Outbreak Investigation in an Outpatient Eye Care Center

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  • ·An Outbreak of Bloodstream Infections with Stenotrophomonas maltophilia and Pantoea agglomerans in an Adult ICU

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  • ·Helocobacter cinaedi Bloodstream Infection and Cellulitis

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  • ·Interdisciplinary Strategy to Control an Outbreak of Norovirus at a North Carolina Acute Care Hospital

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  • ·Investigation of an Outbreak of Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumanii Infection in the Surgical ICU of the University of Massachusetts Hospital

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  • ·Investigation of an Outbreak of Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in a Military Medical Center

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  • ·Lessons Learned: from Personal Protective Equipment Omission in an Endotoxin Inhalation Exposure in a Cooling Tower

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  • ·Multidisciplinary Approach in Characterizing and Managing a Clostridium difficile Outbreak in an Inpatient Bone Marrow Transplant Unit

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  • ·Patient Cloth Chairs and Clostridium difficile Outbreak

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  • ·Pertussis Exposure in NICU

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  • ·Pertussis Outbreak Among Healthcare Workers: Tdap too Little, too Late

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  • ·Rapid Interventions Limit Transmission of Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci in a Neonatal Care Unit

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  • ·The Relationship Between Smoking and the Outbreaks of Norovirus-Associated Gastroenteritis in a Mental Hospital in Japan

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  • ·A Multi-Disciplinary Approach for VAP Prevention: Building a Culture of Safety for ICU Patients

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  • ·A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

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  • ·An Educational Brochure to Reduce the Risk of Infection in the Hospital Setting: Knowledge Assessment and Acceptance from Patients

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  • ·Benefits of Infection Preventionist with Floor Nurse Councils

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  • ·Glass Particles Contamination in Single Dose Ampoules: Patient Safety Concern

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  • ·Implementation of the VA MRSA Bundle at a 132 Bed Acute Care VA Medical Center Shows Promise in Long-Range Rate Reductions for Healthcare-Associated MRSA Infection

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  • ·Infection Prevention Cohort Unit: A Strategy to Promote Patient Safety

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  • ·Myiasis and Infection Control: A Collaborative Approach to the Diagnosis, Treatment and Care of a Patient at a Level I Trauma Center

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  • ·Preventing Falls in Hospitalized Patients on Isolation Precautions

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  • ·Standardization of Isolation Signage in Washington State Hospitals

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  • ·To Ask or not to Ask? The Question of Patients Asking Healthcare Personnel to Perform Hand Hygiene: Results: of a Formative Assessment of a Hand Hygiene Video

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  • ·To Buff or Not to Buff, That is the Question

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  • ·Vigilant Use of Selective Infection Control Measures By Staff Help to Sustain Reduction of Clostridium difficile Infections at a VA Community Living Center

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  • ·Computer Keyboard Covers Impregnated with a Novel Antimicrobial Polymer Significantly Reduce Microbial Contamination

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  • ·Efficacy of Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizers (ABHS): A Hand Wipe (65.9% Ethanol) Exceeds the Killing Capacity of a Gel Rub (62% Ethanol)

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  • ·Evaluation of the RPS Adeno Dedtector System to Confirm Adenoviral Conjuctivitis

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  • ·Investigation of the Rate of Glove Perforations in Orthopedic Procedures with an Indicator Underglove System (IUS) in a Japanese Hospital

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  • ·Staff Perception of a Mobile High-Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) Filtration Unit and a Mobile Air Treatment Unit Employing Non-Thermal-Plasma Reactors

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  • ·Watch Out for Infection Control - Successful Removal of Wrist Watches by Developing an Extendable Fob Watch

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  • ·A Collaborative, Multidisciplinary Approach to Investigating Clusters of Infections and Improving Orthopedic Surgical Outcomes

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  • ·An Assessment of Opportunities for Reducing Bladder Catheter Use at A Busy University-Affiliated Hospital Emergency Department

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  • ·Case Control Study vs. Six Sigma Approach to Decrease Surgical Site Infections After CABG Surgery

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  • ·Cultural and Clinical Changes in the NICU: Impact of a Multi-Faceted Program on Reduction of CVC Associated BSI

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  • ·Direct Observation Model to Ensure Compliance with Urinary Catheter Care Process Measures

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  • ·Establishing Quality Processes in a Rural Sterile Processing Department

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  • ·Flash Sterilization Process Improvement and Correlation with Surgical Site Infections

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  • ·Impact of Improved Environmental Cleaning and Hand Hygiene Compliance on Clostridium difficile Rates in a Surgical Intensive Care Unit

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  • ·Impact of Staff Engagement on Changing Compliance with the Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Bundle

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  • ·Improving Hand Hygiene Compliance Through Culture Change Effort Translates Into Decrease in Healthcare Acquired MRSA Infections

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  • ·Improving Patient Safety Through Increased Hand Hygiene Compliance in the Dialysis Centrer

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  • ·Infection Preventionist Decreases Length of Stay for Suspected Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients

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  • ·Monitoring Compliance of Infection Prevention Interventions Through the Use of a Patient Centered Dashboard

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  • ·Process Improvement Investigation Standards for Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections

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  • ·Reducing Blood Culture Contamination at a Military Medical Center

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  • ·The Impact of a Microsoft SharePoint^® Portal on the Efficiency and Work Practices of an Infection Prevention and Control Team

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  • ·The Importance of Reliable and Reproducible Data Collection in the Age of Public Reporting

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  • ·The Use of ATP Bioluminescence to Assess the Efficacy of Modified Cleaning Programs: A Potential Problem Encountered within the Intensive Care Setting

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  • ·Transport Workers as Champions in Improvement Process: "The Fanny Pack Project"

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  • ·VAP Bundle Readiness: A Review of Documented Oral Care Practices in an Intensive Care Unit

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  • ·Who is Responsible for Cleaning That?

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  • ·Development of A Template for Annual Evaluation, Risk Assessment and Planning: A Large System’s Strategy

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  • ·Laundry Services for Health Care: Compiling Regulatory Mandates, Recommendations, and Best Practices for Infection Prevention

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  • ·A System Wide Approach to Improving Healthcare Workers Influenza Vaccination Compliance

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  • ·Analyzing Subcutaneous Needlestick Injuries Using Lean Six Sigma Methodology

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  • ·Can Education Make a Difference in the Influenza Vaccination Rate?

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  • ·Development and Institution of Uniform Isolation Signs Across a State

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  • ·Development of a Safety Needle Waiver Process in a Major Medical Center

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  • ·Implementation of a Change in Isolation Signage RESULTS: in a 40% Decrease in Clostridium difficile Over a Twelve Month Period of Time

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  • ·Improving Influenza Vaccination Rates in a Community Medical Center

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  • ·Reduction of Sharps Injuries with a Reusable Sharps Containment Safety Device - A 28 Hospital Study

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  • ·Success of Flu Vaccine for Employees: Collaborative Approach to Increasing the Number of HCW Participation in Flu Campaign

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  • ·The Ergonomics of Retraction: A Comparison of Two Brands of Retractable Syringes

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  • ·A Neurosurgical Multidisciplinary Infection Prevention Team: Adverse Event Review and Assessment to Reduce Class I Surgical Site Infections (SSI)

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  • ·A Sign of the Times: Compliance with Isolation Precautions in a Children’s Hospital

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  • ·Implementing a Catheter-Associated Blood Stream Infection Prevention Bundle in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit - Will it Reduce Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus?

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  • ·Moving from Unit-Based Projects to an Institution-wide Cardiovascular (CV) Surgical Site Infection (SSI) Prevention Initiative: A Bundle Approach

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  • ·Protecting Children: Parents Attitudes About Influenza Vaccination

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  • ·Simple and Cost-Effective Strategies to Reduce the Occurrence of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia VAP

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  • ·Success of a Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Prevention Bundle in a Level IIIb Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

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  • ·The Power of Collaboration: Learning from Multi-Disciplinary Bedside Analysis for Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLA-BSI’s) in a Tertiary Care Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)

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  • ·A Model for Infection Prevention in Ambulatory Care Facilities

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  • ·A Multidisciplinary Method to Decrease Surgical Site Infection Rates Utilizing a Back to Basics Approach

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  • ·Disinfection of Senior/Assisted Living Long-Term Care Facilities for Prevention of Legionnaires’ Disease: Efficacy of a Novel Short Course (30-day) Treatment with Copper-silver Ionization

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  • ·Evaluation of a Hand Hygiene Intervention in K-5 Public Schools

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  • ·Increasing Post-Discharge Surgical Site Infection (SSI) Surveillance in the Obstetrical/Gynecological (OB/GYN) Population through Collaboration and Improved Communication with Ambulatory Care

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  • ·Lights, Camera, Action! Development of a New Educational Video for Long-Term Care

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  • ·Maryland Long Term Care Facility Infection Prevention and Control Resources and Practices: A Five Year Reassessment

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  • ·Personal Hygiene Education and Training for Elementary Aged Students in a Large Urban School District Setting: They can do it Themselves

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  • ·Positive Impact of Daily Syndromic Surveillance in Early Detection of Respiratory and Gastroenteritis Outbreaks in Long-Term Care

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  • ·Career Path for the New Infection Preventionist Using the Dreyfus Model of Skills Acquisition

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  • ·Development of a New Monitoring System for the Evaluation of Hand Hygiene Compliance; Hand Hygiene Activity Recognition Using a Triaxial Accelerometer Network System

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  • ·Direct Observation in the Operating Room: First Step to Best Practices

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  • ·Effective Feedback of Hand Hygiene, Isolation Attire and Cleaned Equipment Compliance Data

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  • ·Essential Roles of the Staff Nurse in Hospital Infection Prevention Programs: A Qualitative Analysis

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  • ·Infection Prevention & Control: It Takes a Village to Succeed!

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  • ·Leadership Consciousness for 21st Century Infection Preventionists: From Vision to Action

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  • ·Old Habits Are Hard to Break

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  • ·Provider Orders and Nursing Documentation of Contact Precautions for Patients with Multidrug-Resistant Organisms (MDROs)

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  • ·Raising the Bar on Hand Hygiene Compliance: A Leadership Lead System-Wide Initiative

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  • ·The Creation of an Effective, User-Friendly, Cost-Efficient, Near Real-Time Hand Hygiene Compliance Reporting System

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  • ·A Surveillance System to Monitor the Frequency of Legionella Testing in High-Risk Patients

    Page :E164

    
  • ·Acquisition and Infection Caused by Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus [MRSA]: A Year-Long Comparison of Extended Care and Acute Care Medicine Wards in a U.S. Veterans Affairs Medical Center [VAMC]

    Page :E165

    
  • ·Admission Screening for Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus in a Pediatric Tertiary Care Facility

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  • ·Assessing Microbial Contamination in Patient Isolation Rooms by Monitoring Mixed Staphylococci Assemblages with Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis (DGGE) Analysis

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  • ·Bacteremic Infections: A Year-Long Comparison of Extended Care and Acute Care Medicine Wards in a Veterans Affairs Medical Center [VAMC]

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  • ·Electronic Surveillance for Central Venous Catheter Bloodstream Infections

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  • ·Enhanced Detection of Health Events through Biosurveillance in a Joint Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense Medical Center

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  • ·Infection Prevention Collaboration with Enviromental Services: Development of a Monitoring Tool to Improve Surface Disinfection in the Surgical Operating Suite

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  • ·Pilot Study to Determine Disposition of Mediport Catheters in a Cancer Population

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  • ·Prospective Surveillance of Surgical Site Infections After Breast Surgery

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  • ·Risk Factor Analysis of Colonization with Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci and Methicillin-Resistant Staphyococcus aureus Among Patients Admitted to a Medical Intensive Care Unit

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  • ·Risk Factors for Clostridium difficile Nosocomial Diarrhea

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  • ·Two Into One Will Not Go? Reporting Surgical Site Infections in Hip Arthroplasty and Hemiarthroplasty of the Hip as Opposed to Hip Prosthesis

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  • ·ATP Bioluminescence Testing of Hospital Surfaces as a Means to Evaluate Hospital Environmental Cleanliness and Identify Performance Opportunities in Environmental Management

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  • ·Automated Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection Surveillance

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  • ·Automated Queries Aid in Prompt Notification of Device Related Infections

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  • ·Developing a Standardized Clinical Template and Reminder for TB Skin Test in a Computerized Patient Record System

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  • ·Evaluation of the Use of Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) in Auditing Patient Room Cleanliness

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  • ·Social Networking Among Infection Preventionists: Use of a Shared Knowledge Website

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  • ·Use of New Surveillance Technology Assists a Novice Infection Preventionist to Detect and Desist Environmental/Infection ISSUE: s of Clostridium difficle

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  • ·Using Multiple Data Sources for Event detection, Monitoring and Situational Awareness in North Carolina

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• Oral Abstracts

  • ·Reduction in Hospital Acquired Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLA-BSI) in a Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Population - A Nine Year Experience

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  • ·Infection Risk Associated with a Luer-Activated Device LAD

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  • ·Nosocomial Bloodstream Infections: The Associated Length of Stay and Costs

    Page :E183

    
  • ·A Simple Tool to Help Reduce Duration of Indwelling Urinary Catheters

    Page :E184

    
  • ·Preventing Mediastinitis: Success with the SCIP Bundle and Evidence Based Best Practices

    Page :E184

     
  • ·Staffing and Structure of Infection Prevention and Control Programs in a National Sample of NHSN Hospitals

    Page :E185

    
  • ·Using Objective Benchmarking to Improve Environmental Hygiene in a Five Hospital Group

    Page :E186

     
  • ·Increasing Healthcare Worker Compliance with Contact Precautions

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  • ·Policies and Practices for Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms in a National Sample of NHSN Hospitals

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  • ·A Sensitive Screening Marker for the Identification of Multi-Drug Resistant Gram Negative Bacilli: Using Resistance to Imipenem or Cefepime as a Predictor

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  • ·The Role of Environmental Services in a Collaborative Infection Prevention Model to Reduce Clostridium difficile in the Greater New York Region

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  • ·Protection Offered by Filtering Facepiece Particulate Respirators and Surgical Masks: Lessons from Manikin and Human Subject Studies

    Page :E190

    
  • ·Drive Through to Kill the Flu - Community Outreach Influenza Vaccination Program

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  • ·Infection Prevention and Control Competencies for Hospital-Based Healthcare Workers

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  • ·Needling Employees into Compliance: Improving Healthcare Worker Influenza Vaccination Rates Through the Use of Time Off Awards

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  • ·The Effect of Changing the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Definition of Laboratory-Confirmed Bloodstream Infection (LCBI)

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  • ·Surveillance for the Purpose of Discontinuing Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Contact Precautions on an Inpatient Medical Unit: An Exercise in Futility?

    Page :E195

    
  • ·Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection Reduction Using Best Practice Bundle

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  • ·Community Associated Staphylococcus aureus Deaths in Florida: A Pilot Project

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• Author Index

  • ·Author Index - 2009 Abstracts

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    Plan Plan
  • ·Future APIC Annual Conference Dates and Locations

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  • ·Information for Readers

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