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| Deborah S YokoeSummaryAffiliation: Harvard University Country: USA Publications
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Simplified surveillance for nosocomial bloodstream infectionsD S Yokoe
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 19:657-60. 1998..To compare a surveillance definition of noso comial bloodstream infections requiring only microbiology data to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) current definition...
Pharmacy data for tuberculosis surveillance and assessment of patient managementDeborah S Yokoe
Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 10:1426-31. 2004..Pharmacy data can help public health officials to find TB cases and assess their management in populations that receive care in the private sector...- Enhanced identification of postoperative infections among inpatientsDeborah S Yokoe
Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 10:1924-30. 2004..This screening method was efficient, readily standardized, and suitable for most hospitals... 
Multicenter study of Clostridium difficile infection rates from 2000 to 2006Erik R Dubberke
Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, Box 8051, 660 South Euclid, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 31:1030-7. 2010....- Improving the assessment of vancomycin-resistant enterococci by routine screeningSusan S Huang
Brigham and Women s Hospital, Channing Laboratory and Department of Infection Control, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Infect Dis 195:339-46. 2007..Routine surveillance cultures can substantially improve prevalence and incidence estimates, and assessing the range of improvement across diverse units is important... - Use of Medicare diagnosis and procedure codes to improve detection of surgical site infections following hip arthroplasty, knee arthroplasty, and vascular surgeryMichael S Calderwood
Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 33:40-9. 2012..To evaluate the use of routinely collected electronic health data in Medicare claims to identify surgical site infections (SSIs) following hip arthroplasty, knee arthroplasty, and vascular surgery... - Use of Medicare claims to rank hospitals by surgical site infection risk following coronary artery bypass graft surgerySusan S Huang
Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 32:775-83. 2011..To evaluate whether longitudinal insurer claims data allow reliable identification of elevated hospital surgical site infection (SSI) rates... - The impact of ICD-9-CM code rank order on the estimated prevalence of Clostridium difficile infectionsErik R Dubberke
Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
Clin Infect Dis 53:20-5. 2011..Whether ICD-9-CM code rank order affects CDI prevalence estimates is important because the National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS) and the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) have varying limits on the number of ICD-9-CM codes collected... - Impact of an environmental cleaning intervention on the presence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant enterococci on surfaces in intensive care unit roomsEric R Goodman
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 29:593-9. 2008.... - Proposed checklist of hospital interventions to decrease the incidence of healthcare-associated Clostridium difficile infectionSarah K Abbett
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 30:1062-9. 2009..The incidence and severity of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) are increasing, and previously described interventions for controlling the spread of CDI are not easily generalized to multiple healthcare institutions... - Improving methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus surveillance and reporting in intensive care unitsSusan S Huang
Brigham and Women s Hospital, Channing Laboratory and Infection Control Department, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Infect Dis 195:330-8. 2007..In addition, many assessments underestimate the incidence of acquisition by including prevalent carriers in the at-risk population... - Enhanced identification of postoperative infections among outpatientsAndrew L Miner
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 10:1931-7. 2004..Claims data may complement other data sources for identification of surgical site infections following breast surgery and cesarean section... - Enhanced surgical site infection surveillance following hysterectomy, vascular, and colorectal surgeryDeborah S Yokoe
Channing Laboratory and Infectious Diseases Division, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 33:768-73. 2012..To evaluate the use of inpatient pharmacy and administrative data to detect surgical site infections (SSIs) following hysterectomy and colorectal and vascular surgery... - Objective surveillance definitions for ventilator-associated pneumoniaMichael Klompas
Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, USA
Crit Care Med 40:3154-61. 2012..We explored the feasibility of creating objective surveillance definitions for ventilator-associated pneumonia... - A compendium of strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections in acute care hospitalsDeborah S Yokoe
Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 29:S12-21. 2008.... - Impact of routine intensive care unit surveillance cultures and resultant barrier precautions on hospital-wide methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremiaSusan S Huang
Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Clin Infect Dis 43:971-8. 2006..To our knowledge, the relative impact of these interventions has not previously been ascertained... - Improving patient safety through infection control: a new healthcare imperativeDeborah S Yokoe
Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 29:S3-11. 2008..In this introduction, we provide background and context and discuss the major issues that shaped the recommendations included in the compendium... - Multicenter study of the impact of community-onset Clostridium difficile infection on surveillance for C. difficile infectionErik R Dubberke
Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 30:518-25. 2009..To evaluate the impact of cases of community-onset, healthcare facility (HCF)-associated Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) on the incidence and outbreak detection of CDI... - Automated surveillance of health care-associated infectionsMichael Klompas
Infection Control Department, Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Clin Infect Dis 48:1268-75. 2009..The efficiency and objectivity of these methods make them promising candidates for more manageable and meaningful benchmarking within and between facilities... - Detection of postoperative surgical-site infections: comparison of health plan-based surveillance with hospital-based programsKenneth E Sands
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Eastern Massachusetts Prevention Epicenter, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 24:741-3. 2003..Interpretation of differences among hospitals' infection rates requires case mix adjustment and understanding of variations in hospitals' discharge diagnosis coding practices... - Clinical risk factors for severe Clostridium difficile-associated diseaseTimothy J Henrich
Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 15:415-22. 2009..06), and computed tomography scan showing colorectal inflammation (OR 13.54). These clinical and laboratory markers for severe disease may be useful for identifying patients at risk for serious outcomes or death... - Admission-specific chronic disease scores as alternative predictors of surgical site infection for patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgeryRuth Batista
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Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 27:802-8. 2006.... - Varying rates of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea at prevention epicenter hospitalsSeJean Sohn
Infection Control, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 26:676-9. 2005..The varying clinical and laboratory approaches to diagnosis complicated comparisons between hospitals. To facilitate benchmarking and comparisons between institutions, we recommend development of a more standardized case definition...