The establishment of a statewide surveillance program for hospital-acquired infections in large Victorian public hospitals: a report from the VICNISS Coordinating CentrePhilip L Russo
VICNISS Hospital Acquired Infection Surveillance System Coordinating Centre, Victoria, Australia
Am J Infect Control 34:430-6. 2006
..CONCLUSION: A standardized approach for surveillance of HAI was established in a short time frame in over 28 VPH. VICNISS is a tool that will continue to provide participating hospitals with a basis for continuous quality improvement...
The effectiveness of a single-stage versus traditional three-staged protocol of hospital disinfection at eradicating vancomycin-resistant Enterococci from frequently touched surfacesN Deborah Friedman
Department of Infectious Diseases, Barwon Health, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Am J Infect Control 41:227-31. 2013
..Environmental contamination is a reservoir for vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE) in hospitals...
- Compliance with surgical antibiotic prophylaxis at an Australian teaching hospital
N Deborah Friedman
Department of Infectious Diseases, Barwon Health, Geelong Hospital, Bellerine Street, Geelong, VIC 3220, Australia
Am J Infect Control 41:71-4. 2013
..Surgical antibiotic prophylaxis (SAP) is one practice proven to prevent surgical site infections...
- Investigation of an outbreak of Serratia marcescens in a neonatal unit via a case-control study and molecular typing
N Deborah Friedman
Department of Infectious Diseases, Southern Health, Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Am J Infect Control 36:22-8. 2008
..In March 2004, infection or colonization with Serratia marcescens affected one third of all neonates in a newborn services unit (NBS)...
- Risk factors for surgical site infection complicating laminectomy
N Deborah Friedman
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 28:1060-5. 2007
..To examine risk factors for surgical site infection (SSI) following spinal surgery and to analyze the associations between a surgeon's years of operating experience and surgical specialty and patients' SSI risk...
- An alternative scoring system to predict risk for surgical site infection complicating coronary artery bypass graft surgery
N Deborah Friedman
Victorian Hospital Acquired Infection Surveillance System, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 28:1162-8. 2007
..To analyze the risk factors for surgical site infection (SSI) complicating coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery and to create an alternative SSI risk score based on the results of multivariate analysis...
- Validation of coronary artery bypass graft surgical site infection surveillance data from a statewide surveillance system in Australia
N Deborah Friedman
Victorian Hospital Acquired Infection Surveillance System Coordinating Centre, North Melbourne, Australia
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 28:812-7. 2007
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- Performance of the national nosocomial infections surveillance risk index in predicting surgical site infection in australia
N Deborah Friedman
Victorian Hospital Acquired Infection Surveillance System, Melbourne, Australia
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 28:55-9. 2007
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- Epidemiology, clinical features and diagnosis of Mycobacterium ulcerans in an Australian population
Sarah C Boyd
Barwon Health, Geelong, Vic, Australia
Med J Aust 196:341-4. 2012
..To describe the epidemiology, clinical features and diagnosis of Mycobacterium ulcerans infection occurring on the Bellarine Peninsula in Victoria...
- Mortality and time to extubation in severe hospital-acquired pneumonia
Sarah M Connelly
Department of Internal Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Am J Infect Control 37:143-9. 2009
..This study examined predictors of in-hospital mortality and time to extubation among patients with acute, severe hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) managed in the intensive care unit (ICU)...
- Risk factors for ineffective therapy in patients with bloodstream infection
Jay R McDonald
Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Arch Intern Med 165:308-13. 2005
..The objective of this study was to analyze the impact of health care-associated status on effectiveness of initial therapy in hospitalized patients with bloodstream infections...
- Infections after coronary artery bypass graft surgery in Victorian hospitals--VICNISS Hospital Acquired Infection Surveillance
Philip L Russo
VICNISS Coordinating Centre, North Melbourne, Victoria
Aust N Z J Public Health 29:244-8. 2005
..To establish a surveillance program reporting surgical site infection rates after coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABGS) in Victorian public hospitals...
- Health care--associated bloodstream infections in adults: a reason to change the accepted definition of community-acquired infections
N Deborah Friedman
Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center and Durham Regional Hospital, Box 3605, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Ann Intern Med 137:791-7. 2002
..A separate category for health care-associated bloodstream infections is justified, and this new category will have obvious implications for choices about empirical therapy and infection-control surveillance...
- The impact of surgical-site infections following orthopedic surgery at a community hospital and a university hospital: adverse quality of life, excess length of stay, and extra cost
James D Whitehouse
Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 23:183-9. 2002
..Moreover, patients with orthopedic SSIs have substantially greater physical limitations and significant reductions in their health-related quality of life...
- Spontaneous dermal abscesses and ulcers as a result of Serratia marcescens
N Deborah Friedman
Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
J Am Acad Dermatol 49:S193-4. 2003
..These skin ulcers and underlying dermal abscesses were found to be a result of S marcescens, with the presumed portal of entry being a toe-web infection...
Successful outcomes with oral fluoroquinolones combined with rifampicin in the treatment of Mycobacterium ulcerans: an observational cohort studyDaniel P O'Brien
Department of Infectious Diseases, Barwon Health, Geelong, Australia
PLoS Negl Trop Dis 6:e1473. 2012
..We describe outcomes and tolerability of fluoroquinolone-containing antibiotic regimens for Mycobacterium ulcerans in south-eastern Australia...
- 2009 H1N1 influenza A and pregnancy outcomes in Victoria, Australia
Saliya Hewagama
Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne, Australia
Clin Infect Dis 50:686-90. 2010
..Pregnant women have been identified as a group at risk of increased morbidity and mortality associated with the pandemic H1N1 influenza A 2009 (H1N1/09) outbreak...
