Infection control - a problem for patient safety.

By J. Burke. New England Journal of Medicine, 2003

1,173 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Microbiology

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In Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine

1. Trish Perl
2. T. Dellit
3. Emily R. M. Sydnor
4. Victoria J. Fraser
5. David L. Paterson

In Infectious Diseases

1. T. Dellit
2. Trish Perl
3. Emily R. M. Sydnor
4. J. Burke
5. Neil O. Fishman
6. David L. Paterson
7. M. Billeter

In Microbiology

1. Trish Perl
2. T. Dellit
3. Emily R. M. Sydnor

Citations in the corpus

• Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America guidelines for developing an institutional program to enhance antimicrobial stewardship. (2007, background): “Longitudinal studies implementing restrictive policies have demonstrated significant initial decreases in the use of the tar­ geted antimicrobials, with annual antimicrobial cost savings ranging upwards of $800,000 [14, 51–57].”
• 2007 Guideline for Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Health Care Settings (2007, neutral): “542, 543, 545, 564 II.A.1.a.”
• Strategies to Prevent Surgical Site Infections in Acute Care Hospitals (2008, background): “Surgical procedures have been shifting to the outpatient setting during the past 3 decades.(24) i.”
• The Critical Care Safety Study: The incidence and nature of adverse events and serious medical errors in intensive care* (2005, background): “Although it is often impossible to identify a specific error responsible for an infection, deviations from safe practice standards are associated with higher infection rates (33).”
• Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control in Acute-Care Settings (2011, background): “At least 90,000 deaths per year are a result, making nosocomial infections the fifth leading cause of death in acute-care hospitals (40, 314).”
• Strategies to Prevent Surgical Site Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2014 Update (2014, background): “the acute care setting to the ambulatory (free-standing or hospital-affiliated) outpatient care setting.(39)"(41) B.”
• Estimating Health Care-Associated Infections and Deaths in U.S. Hospitals, 2002 (2007, background): “Of these discharges, 90% (33,726,611) were among adults and children and 10% (3,789,310) were among newborns.”