Adverse clinical and economic outcomes attributable to methicillin resistance among patients with Staphylococcus aureus surgical site infection.

By John J. Engemann, Yehuda Carmeli, S. Cosgrove, V. Fowler, Melissa Z. Bronstein, Sharon L. Trivette, Jane P. Briggs, D. Sexton, K. Kaye. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2003

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Subfields: Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Surgery

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In Epidemiology

1. David L. Paterson
2. Trish Perl
3. Emily R. M. Sydnor
4. Victoria J. Fraser
5. F. Lowy
6. E. Dubberke
7. T. Dellit

In Infectious Diseases

1. S. Cosgrove
2. T. Dellit
3. J. Boyce
4. Trish Perl
5. Emily R. M. Sydnor
6. J. Burke
7. R. Gordon
8. Neil O. Fishman

In Surgery

1. S. Cosgrove
2. Yehuda Carmeli
3. Robert A. Weinstein
4. David L. Paterson
5. T. Dellit

Citations in the corpus

• The relationship between antimicrobial resistance and patient outcomes: mortality, length of hospital stay, and health care costs. (2006, background): “Outcomes related to methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus surgical site infections (SSIs) [21].”
• Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control in Acute-Care Settings (2011, background): “aureus (MSSA), which persists after controlling for the severity of underlying illnesses (77, 92, 299).”
• The negative impact of antibiotic resistance. (2016, neutral): “aureus infections [13,14].”
• Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): burden of disease and control challenges in Europe. (2010, neutral): “[ 26 ]”
• Strategies to Prevent Surgical Site Infections in Acute Care Hospitals (2008, background): “Table 1 summarizes the risk factors for each of these categories and provides recommendations (when available) to decrease the risk of SSI. b. Surgical Infection Prevention Collaborative i.”
• 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): “Bacteremia [34, 35] and surgical site infections [36] due to”
• Summary of the 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): “Bacteremia [34, 35] and surgical site infections [36] due to”
• Guidelines for the control and prevention of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in healthcare facilities. (2006, background): “In a prospective study of patients with MRSA and MSSA surgical site infections, patients with MRSA had a longer mean duration of hospital stay with a higher mortality.(35) Meticillin resistance remained an independent factor influencing mortality on multi-variate analysis in this study.”
• Strategies to Prevent Surgical Site Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2014 Update (2014, background): “A meta-analysis meta-analysis of 5 of the above-referenced studies concluded that perioperative supplemental oxygen led to a relative risk (RR) reduction of 25% for SSI.”
• SHEA Guideline for Preventing Nosocomial Transmission of Multidrug-Resistant Strains of Staphylococcus aureus and Enterococcus (2003, background): “001).(17) The two latter associations remained significant in a multivariate analysis after adjusting for multiple covariates including American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) score.”
• The Impact of Methicillin Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia on Patient Outcomes: Mortality, Length of Stay, and Hospital Charges (2005, background): “aureus surgical-site infections.(4) That study noted a 1.”
• Invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in the United States. (2007, background): “In the hospital, MRSA infections are associated with greater lengths of stay, higher mortality,(22) and increased costs.(23,24) Although more recently there has been increased surveillance activity for invasive MRSA infections in the community, surveillance for MRSA bloodstream infections in the Uni”