Prevalence of Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals in Jacksonville, Florida
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology2012Vol. 33(3), pp. 283–291
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Shelley S. Magill, Walter C. Hellinger, Jessica Cohen, Robyn Kay, Christine Bailey, Bonnie Boland, Darlene Carey, Jessica de Guzman, Karen Dominguez, Jonathan R. Edwards, Lori Goraczewski, Teresa Horan, Melodee Miller, Marti Phelps, Rebecca Saltford, Jacquelyn Seibert, Brenda A. Smith, Patricia Starling, Bonnie Viergutz, Karla Walsh, Mobeen H. Rathore, Nilmarie Guzman, Scott K. Fridkin
Abstract
HAI prevalence in this pilot was similar to that reported in the 1970s by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Study on the Efficacy of Nosocomial Infection Control. Antimicrobial therapy was a sensitive screening variable with which to identify those patients at higher risk for infection and reduce data collection burden. Additional work is needed on validation and feasibility to extend this methodology to a national scale.
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