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Health care-associated infection: assessing the value and validity of our measuresSusan S Huang
Division of Infectious Diseases and Department of Epidemiology and Infection Prevention, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, California, USA
Clin Infect Dis 48:1116-22. 2009....
Automated detection of infectious disease outbreaks in hospitals: a retrospective cohort studySusan S Huang
Division of Infectious Diseases and Health Policy Research Institute, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, California, United States of America
PLoS Med 7:e1000238. 2010..Ideally, outbreak detection programs should evaluate many pathogens, using a wide array of data sources...- Strain-relatedness of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates recovered from patients with repeated infectionSusan S Huang
Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Orange, CA 92868, USA
Clin Infect Dis 46:1241-7. 2008..We found that MRSA infection following initial colonization or infection is caused by the same strain in most cases, suggesting that a single successful attempt at decolonization may prevent the majority of later infection... - Quantifying interhospital patient sharing as a mechanism for infectious disease spreadSusan S Huang
Division of Infectious Diseases and Health Policy Research Institute, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 31:1160-9. 2010..Assessments of infectious disease spread in hospitals seldom account for interfacility patient sharing. This is particularly important for pathogens with prolonged incubation periods or carrier states... - Healthcare utilization and cost of pneumococcal disease in the United StatesSusan S Huang
Division of Infectious Diseases and Health Policy Research Institute, University California Irvine School of Medicine, 100 Theory Ave, Suite 110, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Vaccine 29:3398-412. 2011..Streptococcus pneumoniae continues to cause a variety of common clinical syndromes, despite vaccination programs for both adults and children. The total U.S. burden of pneumococcal disease is unknown... - Colonization with antibiotic-susceptible strains protects against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus but not vancomycin-resistant enterococci acquisition: a nested case-control studySusan S Huang
Division of Infectious Diseases and Health Policy Research Institute, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, 100 Theory, Ste 110, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Crit Care 15:R210. 2011.... - Re-emergence of the type 1 pilus among Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in Massachusetts, USAGili Regev-Yochay
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Vaccine 28:4842-6. 2010..These emerging piliated non-VT strains are mostly novel clones, with some exceptions. The rise in pilus type 1 frequency across multiple distinct genetic backgrounds suggests that the pilus may confer an intrinsic advantage... - What is nosocomial? Large variation in hospital choice of numerators and denominators affects rates of hospital-onset methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureusRupak Datta
Division of Infectious Diseases and Health Policy Research Institute, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, California 92697, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 33:1166-9. 2012..Survey-reported denominators differed from state-reported patient-days. Numerator and denominator choices substantially impacted HO-MRSA rates... - Predicting High Prevalence of Community Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strains in Nursing HomesCourtney R Murphy
Division of Infectious Diseases and Health Policy Research Institute, University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine, Irvine, California
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 34:325-6. 2013..In multivariate models, carriage was associated with age less than 65 years (odds ratio, 1.2; [Formula: see text]) and Hispanic ethnicity (odds ratio, 1.2; [Formula: see text]). Interventions are needed to target CA-MRSA... - Environmental cleaning intervention and risk of acquiring multidrug-resistant organisms from prior room occupantsRupak Datta
Division of Infectious Diseases and Health Policy Research Institute, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, 100 Theory, Ste 110, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Arch Intern Med 171:491-4. 2011..Subsequently, a cleaning intervention was shown to reduce MRSA and VRE room contamination. We now evaluate the effect of this intervention on the risk of acquiring MRSA and VRE from prior room occupants... - Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus burden in nursing homes associated with environmental contamination of common areasCourtney R Murphy
School of Social Ecology and Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California 92617, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 60:1012-8. 2012..To determine whether environmental cleaning and contamination are associated with variation in the prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) between nursing homes... - Predictors of Hospitals with Endemic Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureusCourtney R Murphy
School of Social Ecology and Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, California
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 34:581-7. 2013..Additional research is needed to determine whether infection control strategies can be successful in targeting CA-MRSA influx... - Nursing home characteristics associated with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Burden and TransmissionCourtney R Murphy
Division of Infectious Diseases and Health Policy Research Institute, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, CA, USA
BMC Infect Dis 12:269. 2012..We sought to measure MRSA burden in a large number of nursing homes and identify facility characteristics associated with high MRSA burden... - Frequent hospital readmissions for Clostridium difficile infection and the impact on estimates of hospital-associated C. difficile burdenCourtney R Murphy
Division of Infectious Diseases and Health Policy Research Institute, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, California, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 33:20-8. 2012..Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is associated with hospitalization and may cause readmission following admission for any reason. We aimed to measure the incidence of readmissions due to CDI... - Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection and hospitalization in high-risk patients in the year following detectionSusan S Huang
Division of Infectious Diseases and Health Policy Research Institute, School of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America
PLoS ONE 6:e24340. 2011..None have assessed the comprehensive burden of MRSA infection in the period after hospital discharge while accounting for healthcare utilization across institutions... - Successful strategies for high participation in three regional healthcare surveys: an observational studyKristen R Elkins
Division of Infectious Diseases and Health Policy Research Institute, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, Orange, California, USA
BMC Med Res Methodol 11:176. 2011..However, the success of such surveys depends upon high participation and representativeness of respondents... - Risk of postdischarge infection with vancomycin-resistant enterococcus after initial infection or colonizationRupak Datta
Division of Infectious Diseases and Health Policy Research Institute, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 31:1290-3. 2010..Fifteen patients (8%) developed 27 VRE infections in the 18 months after detection. Among 10 postdischarge infections, 2 involved bacteremia and 3 resulted in readmission... 
Risk of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection after previous infection or colonizationSusan S Huang
Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Division of Infectious Diseases, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Clin Infect Dis 36:281-5. 2003..Accurate assessment of the risk of MRSA-associated sequelae requires prolonged follow-up after discharge...- 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... - Continued impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on carriage in young childrenSusan S Huang
Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Orange, CA 92868, USA
Pediatrics 124:e1-11. 2009.... - Discord among performance measures for central line-associated bloodstream infectionDavid M Tehrani
Division of Infectious Diseases and Health Policy Research Institute, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, CA 92617, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 34:176-83. 2013..Differences in chart review versus claims-based metrics used by national agencies and groups raise concerns about the validity of these measures... - Voluntary to mandatory: evolution of strategies and attitudes toward influenza vaccination of healthcare personnelKathleen Quan
Department of Epidemiology and Infection Prevention, University of California Irvine Medical Center, Orange, California 92868, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 33:63-70. 2012..Assessing the relative success of serial strategies for increasing healthcare personnel (HCP) influenza vaccination rates is important to guide hospital policies to increase vaccine uptake... - 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... - Recommendations for metrics for multidrug-resistant organisms in healthcare settings: SHEA/HICPAC Position paper Adam L Cohen
Divisions of Bacterial Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 29:901-13. 2008 - Risk of acquiring antibiotic-resistant bacteria from prior room occupantsSusan S Huang
Departments of Medicine and Infection Control, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Intern Med 166:1945-51. 2006.... - 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... - Legislative mandates for use of active surveillance cultures to screen for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant enterococci: position statement from the Joint SHEA and APIC Task ForceStephen G Weber
Section of Infectious Diseases, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 28:249-60. 2007..5) APIC and SHEA support stronger collaboration between state and local public health authorities and institutional infection prevention and control experts... - Legislative mandates for use of active surveillance cultures to screen for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant enterococci: Position statement from the Joint SHEA and APIC Task ForceStephen G Weber
Section of Infectious Diseases, University of Chicago Hospitals, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Am J Infect Control 35:73-85. 2007..5) The APIC and the SHEA support stronger collaboration between state and local public health authorities and institutional infection prevention and control experts... - Risk of infection and death due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in long-term carriersRupak Datta
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Clin Infect Dis 47:176-81. 2008.... - 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... - Community-level predictors of pneumococcal carriage and resistance in young childrenSusan S Huang
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Epidemiol 159:645-54. 2004..5, 95% confidence interval: 1.0, 11.7). The two- to threefold odds of pneumococcal carriage conferred by certain community characteristics suggest that these measures may target communities for interventions to decrease transmission... - 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.... - Antibiotic resistance patterns of bacterial isolates from blood in San Francisco County, California, 1996-1999Susan S Huang
University of California San Francisco, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 8:195-201. 2002..We describe the utility, difficulties, and limitations of countywide surveillance...