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| Mohamad G FakihSummaryAffiliation: St. John Hospital and Medical Center Country: USA Publications
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Effect of nurse-led multidisciplinary rounds on reducing the unnecessary use of urinary catheterization in hospitalized patientsMohamad G Fakih
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, St John Hospital and Medical Center, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan 48236, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 29:815-9. 2008..To determine the effect of nurse-led multidisciplinary rounds on reducing the unnecessary use of urinary catheters (UCs)...- Sustained reductions in urinary catheter use over 5 years: bedside nurses view themselves responsible for evaluation of catheter necessityMohamad G Fakih
St John Hospital and Medical Center, 19251 Mack Ave, Suite 190, Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236, USA
Am J Infect Control 41:236-9. 2013..Multiple approaches are needed to improve urinary catheter use and sustain compliance with the appropriate indications for catheter use... - Introducing a population-based outcome measure to evaluate the effect of interventions to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infectionMohamad G Fakih
St John Hospital and Medical Center, Detroit, MI, USA
Am J Infect Control 40:359-64. 2012.... - Sustained improvements in peripheral venous catheter care in non-intensive care units: a quasi-experimental controlled study of education and feedbackMohamad G Fakih
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, St John Hospital and Medical Center and Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan 48236, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 33:449-55. 2012..Peripheral venous catheters (PVCs) can be associated with serious infectious complications. We evaluated the effect of education and feedback on process measures to improve PVC care and infectious complications... 
Increase in the rate of sternal surgical site infection after coronary artery bypass graft: a marker of higher severity of illnessMohamad G Fakih
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, St John Hospital and Medical Center, Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 28:655-60. 2007..To evaluate factors related to a gradual rise in sternal surgical site infection (SSI) rates...- Urinary catheters in the emergency department: very elderly women are at high risk for unnecessary utilizationMohamad G Fakih
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, St John Hospital and Medical Center, 19251 Mack Avenue, Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236, USA
Am J Infect Control 38:683-8. 2010..Many of the urinary catheters (UCs) placed in the emergency department (ED) might not be necessary. We evaluated compliance with our institutional UC utilization guidelines and assessed factors influencing utilization... - Do resident physicians use antibiotics appropriately in treating upper respiratory infections? A survey of 11 programsMohamad G Fakih
Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan 48236, USA
Clin Infect Dis 37:853-6. 2003..Although they viewed excess antibiotic use as the most important factor increasing resistance, they had little knowledge regarding antimicrobial resistance and were willing to prescribe antibiotics for common viral illnesses... - Effect of establishing guidelines on appropriate urinary catheter placementMohamad G Fakih
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, St John Hospital and Medical Center and Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA
Acad Emerg Med 17:337-40. 2010..The authors sought to evaluate the effect of establishing institutional guidelines for appropriate UC placement coupled with emergency physician (EP) education on UC utilization... - A Web-based course on infection control for physicians in training: an educational interventionMohamad G Fakih
Department of Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine, St John Hospital and Medical Center, Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 27:704-8. 2006..To evaluate the effectiveness of a Web-based course on infection control accessed by physicians in training... - Harvest surgical site infection following coronary artery bypass grafting: risk factors, microbiology, and outcomesMamta Sharma
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, St John Hospital and Medical Center, Detroit, MI, USA
Am J Infect Control 37:653-7. 2009.... 
Role of SCCmec type in outcome of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in a single medical centerRoopa Ganga
St John Hospital and Medical Center, Detroit, Michigan 48236, USA
J Clin Microbiol 47:590-5. 2009..aureus bacteremia. Additional studies are needed to identify which virulence factors are the determinants of increased mortality with SCCmec type II and metastatic infection with SCCmec type IVa...- Persistence in Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: incidence, characteristics of patients and outcomeRiad Khatib
Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, St John Hospital and Medical Center, Detroit, MI 48236, USA
Scand J Infect Dis 38:7-14. 2006..Risk factors include endovascular sources, cardiovascular prosthesis, metastatic infections, vancomycin treatment and diabetes. Patients at risk may benefit from novel treatment strategies... - Translating health care-associated urinary tract infection prevention research into practice via the bladder bundleSanjay Saint
VA Ann Arbor HSR and D Center of Excellence, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 35:449-55. 2009..Therefore, learning how to implement these findings is critically important to promoting high-quality care and a safe health care environment... - The effect of resident peer-to-peer education on compliance with urinary catheter placement indications in the emergency departmentNicholas G Dyc
Department of Emergency Medicine, St John Hospital and Medical Center, Detroit, MI 48236, USA
Postgrad Med J 87:814-8. 2011..A more active approach must be taken and other factors need to be further explored to reduce unnecessary placement of UC by residents in the ED... - Prevalence of nasal colonization among patients with community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection and their household contactsUzma Zafar
Department of Internal Medicine, St John Hospital and Medical Center, Detroit, MI, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 28:966-9. 2007..To evaluate the prevalence of colonization among patients with community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) infection and their household contacts... - Time to positivity in Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: possible correlation with the source and outcome of infectionRiad Khatib
Department of Medicine, St John Hospital and Medical Center, Detroit, MI 48236, USA
Clin Infect Dis 41:594-8. 2005..It is unknown whether the time between blood culture incubation and growth detection (i.e., the time to positivity) in a continuously monitored system--a probable surrogate marker of bacteremia severity--correlates with outcome... - Relevance of vancomycin-intermediate susceptibility and heteroresistance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemiaRiad Khatib
Department of Medicine, St John Hospital and Medical Center, Grosse Pointe Woods, MI, USA
J Antimicrob Chemother 66:1594-9. 2011..To assess the relevance of vancomycin-intermediate susceptibility (VISA) and heteroresistance (hVISA) in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteraemia... - Delayed peripheral venous catheter-related Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: onset ≥ 24 hours after catheter removalKathryn T Sanchez
Department of Internal Medicine Infectious Diseases, Division of Infectious Diseases, St John Hospital and Medical Center, Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan 48236, USA
Scand J Infect Dis 44:551-4. 2012..10, 95% confidence intervals (CI) 1.16-58.61) and age ≥ 65 y (OR 1.63, 95% CI 1.12-23.30). These patients may have impaired local/systemic defenses that lead to D-SAB, or a blunted host response with delayed recognition... - Eliminating nosocomial infections at Ascension HealthDorine Berriel-Cass
Infection Control, St. John Hospital and Medical Center, Detroit, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 32:612-20. 2006..Open communication among all patient caregivers was extended and served to provide improved patient care throughout the hospital... - Decreasing incidence of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia over 9 years: greatest decline in community-associated methicillin-susceptible and hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant isolatesRiad Khatib
Department of Medicine, St John Hospital and Medical Center, Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236, USA
Am J Infect Control 41:210-3. 2013..The impact of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) emergence on the epidemiology of S aureus bacteremia (SAB) is not well documented... - In vitro activities of LTX-109, a synthetic antimicrobial peptide, against methicillin-resistant, vancomycin-intermediate, vancomycin-resistant, daptomycin-nonsusceptible, and linezolid-nonsusceptible Staphylococcus aureusLouis D Saravolatz
St John Hospital and Medical Center, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Antimicrob Agents Chemother 56:4478-82. 2012..aureus (VRSA) isolates. LTX-109 demonstrated a MIC range of 2 to 4 μg/ml and dose-dependent rapid bactericidal activity against S. aureus. This activity was not influenced by resistance to other antistaphylococcal agents... - Molecular analysis of Staphylococcus aureus blood isolates shows lack of polyclonal bacteremiaRiad Khatib
St John Hospital and Medical Center, Detroit, Michigan 48236, USA
J Clin Microbiol 41:1717-9. 2003..1%) and two related variants in two patients (4.9%). Polyclonal bacteremia was not observed in any patient, including four with genetic diversity in the catheter tip isolate... - Peripherally inserted central venous catheters in the acute care setting: A safe alternative to high-risk short-term central venous cathetersBasel Al Raiy
Department of Medicine, St John Hospital and Medical Center, Detroit, MI 48236, USA
Am J Infect Control 38:149-53. 2010..It is not clear which device has a lower risk of central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI). We compared CVC- and PICC-related CLABSI rates in the setting of an intervention to remove high-risk CVCs... - Misdiagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia and inappropriate utilization of antibiotics: side effects of the 4-h antibiotic administration ruleManreet Kanwar
Department of Medicine, St John Hospital and Medical Center, 19251 Mack Ave, Suite 340, Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236, USA
Chest 131:1865-9. 2007..This quality indicator has been linked to the incentive compensation of third-party payers to hospitals. We evaluated the impact of this recommendation on the diagnosis of CAP and the utilization of antibiotics... - Cryptococcus neoformans myositis without disseminationMamta Sharma
Department of Medicine, St John Hospital and Medical Center, Detroit, MI 48236, USA
Scand J Infect Dis 34:858-9. 2002..The patient responded to systemic antifungal therapy with complete resolution of his infection. We also present a review of 5 previously published cases of cryptococcal myositis... - Optimal criteria for the diagnosis of Legionella coinfectionRiad Khatib
Clin Infect Dis 36:384; author reply 384-5. 2003