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A study of provider-caregiver communication in paediatric ambulatory careAnne G Matlow
Division of Infectious Diseases, Departments of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario
Paediatr Child Health 11:217-21. 2006..Provider-caregiver communication is a key ingredient in quality health care and patient safety, and effective communication has been shown to affect compliance and outcomes...
Attitudes and beliefs, not just knowledge, influence the effectiveness of environmental cleaning by environmental service workersAnne G Matlow
Infection Prevention and Control Programme, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Am J Infect Control 40:260-2. 2012..Understanding and targeting ESWs' attitudes and beliefs may inform strategies to improve environmental cleaning...
Disclosure of medical errorsAnne Matlow
The Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada
Pediatr Clin North Am 53:1091-104. 2006..Knowledge of the historical perspective, ethical underpinnings, and medico-legal implications gives us a better appreciation of current recommendations for disclosing adverse events resulting from medical error to those affected...- Enteral tube hub as a reservoir for transmissible enteric bacteriaAnne Matlow
Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Am J Infect Control 34:131-3. 2006..Strict attention to infection control measures is imperative when handling enteral feed apparatuses... - How can the principles of complexity science be applied to improve the coordination of care for complex pediatric patients?A G Matlow
Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Qual Saf Health Care 15:85-8. 2006..In this article we view coordination of care through the lens of complexity science in an effort to find new solutions to this healthcare challenge... - The development of the Canadian paediatric trigger tool for identifying potential adverse eventsAnne Matlow
Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Canada
Healthc Q 8:90-3. 2005 - Improving patient safety through a multi-faceted internal surveillance programAnne Matlow
Infection Prevention and Control Programme, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario
Healthc Q 11:101-8. 2008.... - Disclosure of medical error to parents and paediatric patients: assessment of parents' attitudes and influencing factorsA G Matlow
Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Arch Dis Child 95:286-90. 2010..To assess parental preferences for medical error disclosure and evaluate associated factors... - Description of the development and validation of the Canadian Paediatric Trigger ToolAnne G Matlow
Department of Paediatrics, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
BMJ Qual Saf 20:416-23. 2011..To describe the process of developing and validating the Canadian Association of Paediatric Health Centres Trigger Tool (CPTT)... - Nosocomial urinary tract infections in children in a pediatric intensive care unit: a follow-up after 10 yearsAnne G Matlow
Department of Pediatrics, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Pediatr Crit Care Med 4:74-7. 2003..To define nosocomial urinary tract infection (NUTI) rates in a pediatric intensive care unit, and determine whether practice recommendations have been sustained after 10 yrs... - Care of children isolated for infection control: a prospective observational cohort studyEyal Cohen
Department of Pediatrics, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Pediatrics 122:e411-5. 2008..Given the high prevalence and substantial inconvenience associated with implementation of isolation precautions in pediatric settings, we explored the impact of this intervention on the care provided to children and their families... - Survey of isolation practices at a tertiary care pediatric hospitalJoseph V Vayalumkal
Division of Infectious Diseases, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Am J Infect Control 35:207-11. 2007..In this report, we present data from the first 14 months of the study... - Blueprint for patient safetyPolly Stevens
Quality and Risk Management, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
Pediatr Clin North Am 53:1253-67. 2006..Finally, the 10 components of the plan and specific elements that could fall under each component are described... - Pediatric residents' decision-making around disclosing and reporting adverse events: the importance of social contextMaitreya Coffey
Division of Paediatric Medicine and Centre for Patient Safety Faculty, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Acad Med 85:1619-25. 2010..This study explored pediatric residents' knowledge and attitudes about disclosure... - Patient safety in a pediatric centre: partnering with familiesBonnie Fleming-Carroll
Centre for Nursing, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON
Healthc Q 9:96-101. 2006..A task-oriented partnership between families and healthcare workers has proven to be a productive model for advancing pediatric patient safety... - Building from the Blueprint for Patient Safety at the Hospital for Sick ChildrenPolly Stevens
Quality and Risk Management, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario
Healthc Q 8:132-9. 2005 - Achieving closure through disclosure: experience in a pediatric institutionAnne Matlow
Patient Safety, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Pediatr 144:559-60. 2004 - Prevalence and clinical significance of medication discrepancies at pediatric hospital admissionMaitreya Coffey
Division of Pediatric Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1X8, Canada
Acad Pediatr 9:360-365.e1. 2009..To quantify admission medication discrepancies in a tertiary-care, general pediatric population, to describe their clinical importance and associated factors, and to assess a screening approach to pharmacist involvement... - Surveillance for healthcare-acquired febrile respiratory infection in pediatric hospitals participating in the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance ProgramJoseph V Vayalumkal
Canadian Field Epidemiology Program, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 30:652-8. 2009.... - The role of nurse understaffing in nosocomial viral gastrointestinal infections on a general pediatrics wardJacob Stegenga
Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 23:133-6. 2002..94; 95% confidence interval, 2.16 to 4.01). CONCLUSION: Nurse understaffing contributed to an increased NVGI rate in our general pediatrics population, and should be assessed as a risk factor in outbreak investigations... - Microbial contamination of enteral feed administration sets in a pediatric institutionAnne Matlow
Division of Infectious Diseases, The Hospital For Sick Childre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Am J Infect Control 31:49-53. 2003..These sets can serve as a reservoir of organisms that can be crosstransmitted between patients. Adherence to Standard Precautions is critical when handling enteral feeding apparatuses... - Antimicrobial susceptibilities of health care-associated and community-associated strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from hospitalized patients in Canada, 1995 to 2008Andrew E Simor
Department of Microbiology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
Antimicrob Agents Chemother 54:2265-8. 2010..Reduced susceptibility to glycopeptides was not identified... - Children hospitalized with severe acute respiratory syndrome-related illness in TorontoAri Bitnun
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Paediatrics, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Pediatrics 112:e261. 2003..Reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction analysis of nasopharyngeal specimens seems to be of little utility for the diagnosis of SARS during the early symptomatic phase of this illness in young children... - Implementation of admission medication reconciliation at two academic health sciences centres: challenges and success factorsMaitreya Coffey
Hospital for Sick Children and Division of Paediatric Medicine at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Healthc Q 12:102-9. 2009..At The Hospital for Sick Children's pilot unit, 72-88% of patients have a physician's primary medication history documented on a Med Rec form and 57-73% of patients are also undergoing Med Rec by a nurse or pharmacist... - Sustained endemicity of Burkholderia cepacia complex in a pediatric institution, associated with contaminated ultrasound gelMichelle Jacobson
Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 27:362-6. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: Contaminated ultrasound gel contributed to nosocomial infection due to B. cepacia complex in this institution over the course of 10 years. Suggested guidelines for the handling of ultrasound gel are provided... - Infection control practices related to Clostridium difficile infection in acute care hospitals in CanadaDenise Gravel
Centre for Communicable Diseases and Infection Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ontario, Canada
Am J Infect Control 37:9-14. 2009..We carried out a survey to identify the infection prevention and control practices in place in Canadian hospitals participating in the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program (CNISP)... - A point prevalence survey of health care-associated infections in pediatric populations in major Canadian acute care hospitalsDenise Gravel
Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Am J Infect Control 35:157-62. 2007..To estimate the prevalence of pediatric health care-associated infections (HAI) in Canadian acute care hospitals... - Health care-associated Clostridium difficile infection in adults admitted to acute care hospitals in Canada: a Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program StudyDenise Gravel
Centre for Communicable Diseases and Infection Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Clin Infect Dis 48:568-76. 2009..We re-examined the incidence of HA CDI with an emphasis on patient outcomes... - Study of cerebrospinal fluid shunt-associated infections in the first year following placement, by the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance ProgramJoanne M Langley
Department of Pediatrics, Dalhousie University, Canada
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 30:285-8. 2009..85% vs 3.24%; P=.04) and occurred sooner after surgery in children than in adults. A wide variation in compliance with antimicrobial prophylaxis was observed between 21 participating medical centers... - Do in-line respiratory filters protect patients? Comparing bacterial removal efficiency of six filtersAnne Marie Canakis
Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Pediatr Pulmonol 34:336-41. 2002..In conclusion, when all filters are exposed to the same extreme challenges, significant differences exist in their ability to remove bacteria... - Mupirocin-resistant, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains in Canadian hospitalsAndrew E Simor
Department of Microbiology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, B103 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4N 3M5
Antimicrob Agents Chemother 51:3880-6. 2007.... - Vancomycin-resistant enterococci in Canada: results from the Canadian nosocomial infection surveillance program, 1999-2005Marianna Ofner-Agostini
Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 29:271-4. 2008..Although the incidence rate of VRE carriage in Canada is increasing, it remains very low... - Herpes simplex virus in febrile neutropenic children undergoing chemotherapy for cancer: a prospective cohort studyRaveena Ramphal
Division of Haematology Oncology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Pediatr Infect Dis J 26:700-4. 2007..Our secondary objectives were to describe the association between oral HSV and prolonged fever, neutropenia, mucositis, and response to initial antimicrobial therapy... - Detection and characterization of heterogeneous vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus isolates in Canada: results from the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program, 1995-2006Heather J Adam
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, and Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Antimicrob Agents Chemother 54:945-9. 2010..0; 95% CI, 1.2 to 7.4). There has been no evidence of vancomycin "MIC creep" in Canadian strains of methicillin (meticillin)-resistant S. aureus, and hVISA strains are currently uncommon... - Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization or infection in Canada: National Surveillance and Changing Epidemiology, 1995-2007Andrew E Simor
Department of Microbiology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 31:348-56. 2010..To determine the incidence and describe the changing epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) colonization or infection in Canadian hospitals from 1995-2007... - Population-based surveillance for invasive pneumococcal disease in homeless adults in TorontoAgron Plevneshi
Toronto Invasive Bacterial Diseases Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
PLoS ONE 4:e7255. 2009..Identification of high-risk populations for serious infection due to S. pneumoniae will permit appropriately targeted prevention programs... - Invasive pneumococcal disease in adult hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients: a decade of prospective population-based surveillanceD Kumar
Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Bone Marrow Transplant 41:743-7. 2008..The antimicrobial resistance rates were high, especially for trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole. HSCT recipients are at significantly greater risk for IPD than the general population. Preventative strategies are necessary... - Nosocomial transmission of congenital tuberculosis in a neonatal intensive care unitMaryanne Crockett
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Paediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Clin Infect Dis 39:1719-23. 2004..Isolates from both infants were genetically indistinguishable. Transmission between the 2 infants was likely due to contaminated respiratory equipment... - Identification badges: a potential fomite?Kaede Ota
Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton
Can J Infect Control 22:162, 165-6. 2007..Staff identification badges are mandatory in all hospitals. The purpose of this study was to assess microbial contamination of identification badges at a Canadian tertiary centre. Risk factors for badge contamination were also investigated...