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Effects of type and level of training on variation in physician knowledge in the use and acquisition of blood cultures: a cross sectional surveyJorge P Parada
Midwest Center for Health Services and Policy Research, Hines VA Hospital, Hines, IL, USA
BMC Infect Dis 5:71. 2005..Little is known about physician training and BCX-related knowledge. We sought to assess variations in caregiver BCX-related knowledge, and their relation to medical training...
Pharmacists' perceptions of the effectiveness of antimicrobial control programsGail S Itokazu
College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Am J Health Syst Pharm 63:2504-8. 2006..The perceptions of the effectiveness of antimicrobial control programs (ACPs) among infectious diseases (ID) pharmacists were studied...
Lost in translation? Reliability of assessing inpatient antimicrobial appropriateness with use of computerized case vignettesDavid N Schwartz
Division of Infectious Diseases, Stroger Hospital of Cook County, 1901 W Harrison St, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 30:163-71. 2009..To describe and measure reliability of a computer-assisted method of case vignette assembly and expert review to assess the appropriateness of antimicrobial therapy for hospitalized adults...- An educational intervention to improve antimicrobial use in a hospital-based long-term care facilityDavid N Schwartz
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, John H Stroger, Jr Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 55:1236-42. 2007..To improve antimicrobial use in patients receiving long-term care (LTC)... - Deriving measures of intensive care unit antimicrobial use from computerized pharmacy data: methods, validation, and overcoming barriersDavid N Schwartz
Division of Infectious Diseases, John H Stroger, Jr Hospital of Cook County, Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 32:472-80. 2011..To outline methods for deriving and validating intensive care unit (ICU) antimicrobial utilization (AU) measures from computerized data and to describe programming problems that emerged... - Learning by doing: developing fellows' academic skills through collaborative researchMiguel G Madariaga
John H Stroger Jr Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, IL, USA
Med Teach 28:77-80. 2006..This problem-based approach for learning research methods seems more effective than traditional methods and may be applicable to a broad range of training programs... - Antimicrobial consumption data from pharmacy and nursing records: how good are they?Gail S Itokazu
John H Stroger, Jr Hospital of Cook County, Division of Infectious Diseases, 637 S Wood St, Durand Building Room 110, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 26:395-400. 2005..To determine whether randomly selected intravenous (IV) antimicrobial doses dispensed from an inpatient pharmacy were administered... - Implementation of an extended-infusion piperacillin-tazobactam program at an urban teaching hospitalRenee C Xamplas
Department of Pharmacy, John H Stroger Jr Hospital of Cook County, 1901 West Harrison Street, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Am J Health Syst Pharm 67:622-8. 2010..The development and implementation of an extended-infusion piperacillin-tazobactam program at an urban teaching hospital are described... - Antibiotic combinations with redundant antimicrobial spectra: clinical epidemiology and pilot intervention of computer-assisted surveillanceRobert C Glowacki
John H Stroger, Jr, Hospital of Cook County, and University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Clin Infect Dis 37:59-64. 2003..Use of redundant antibiotic combinations was common, and a pharmacist-based intervention was feasible, with a potential annualized cost savings of 48,000 dollars... - Why don't they listen? Adherence to recommendations of infectious disease consultationsEvelyn Lo
John H Stroger Jr Hospital of Cook County, Rush PresbyterianSt Luke s Medical Center, and Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Clin Infect Dis 38:1212-8. 2004..Whether modification of consultant practice will lead to improved recommendation compliance and patient outcomes warrants further study... - Procalcitonin to guide duration of antimicrobial therapy in intensive care units: a systematic reviewRajender Agarwal
Department of Medicine, Stroger Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
Clin Infect Dis 53:379-87. 2011..Procalcitonin guidance of antimicrobial duration appears to decrease antimicrobial use in the ICU safely and significantly and may also decrease the length of stay in the ICU... - Septic pulmonary emboli and bacteremia associated with deep tissue infections caused by community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureusMichael Y Lin
Rush University Medical Center, Section of Infectious Diseases, 600 S Paulina St, Suite 143, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
J Clin Microbiol 46:1553-5. 2008..The patients lacked evidence of right-sided endocarditis or thrombophlebitis. This association, previously described in children, may also be important in adults... - Antibiotic resistance: a survey of physician perceptionsC William Wester
Collaborative Research Unit, Department of Medicine, Cook County Hospital, Room 1600, Administration Building, 1900 W Polk St, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Arch Intern Med 162:2210-6. 2002..Disparities in physician knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes may compromise efforts to improve antibiotic prescribing and infection control practices... - Potential mechanisms for mortality reduction associated with combination antibiotic therapy among severely ill patients with pneumococcal bacteremiaDavid N Schwartz
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 172:1472-3; author reply 1474. 2005