Catheter-Related Infections
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Subject Areas on Research
- A Multicenter Pragmatic Interrupted Time Series Analysis of Chlorhexidine Gluconate Bathing in Community Hospital Intensive Care Units.
- A compendium of strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections in acute care hospitals: 2014 updates.
- A multicenter, phased, cluster-randomized controlled trial to reduce central line-associated bloodstream infections in intensive care units*.
- A multifaceted intervention to reduce rates of catheter-associated urinary tract infections in a resource-limited setting.
- A randomized Phase 2 trial of telavancin versus standard therapy in patients with uncomplicated Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: the ASSURE study.
- Assessing the relative burden of hospital-acquired infections in a network of community hospitals.
- Association between thrombosis and bloodstream infection in neonates with peripherally inserted catheters.
- Bacteriophage K antimicrobial-lock technique for treatment of Staphylococcus aureus central venous catheter-related infection: a leporine model efficacy analysis.
- Casablanca redux: we are shocked that public reporting of rates of central line-associated bloodstream infections are inaccurate.
- Catheter dwell time and CLABSIs in neonates with PICCs: a multicenter cohort study.
- Catheter-related bloodstream infections in children.
- Central line-associated bloodstream infections in adult hematology patients with febrile neutropenia: an evaluation of surveillance definitions using differential time to blood culture positivity.
- Comparison of non-intensive care unit (ICU) versus ICU rates of catheter-associated urinary tract infection in community hospitals.
- Comparison of the burdens of hospital-onset, healthcare facility-associated Clostridium difficile Infection and of healthcare-associated infection due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in community hospitals.
- Constructing unit-specific empiric treatment guidelines for catheter-related and primary bacteremia by determining the likelihood of inadequate therapy.
- Current definitions of central line-associated bloodstream infection: is the emperor wearing clothes?
- Does nonpayment for hospital-acquired catheter-associated urinary tract infections lead to overtesting and increased antimicrobial prescribing?
- Effect of Catheter Dwell Time on Risk of Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection in Infants.
- Emerging Escherichia pathogen.
- Enterococcus species and the central line-associated bloodstream infection surveillance definition: evaluating the importance of blood culture contamination.
- Fractured pediatric central venous catheters - Repair or replace?
- Impact of Changes to the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Definition on Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) Rates in Intensive Care Units at an Academic Medical Center.
- Impact of automatic infectious diseases consultation on the management of fungemia at a large academic medical center.
- Implementation Strategies to Improve Evidence-Based Bathing Practices in a Neuro ICU.
- Implementing a Daily Maintenance Care Bundle to Prevent Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections in Pediatric Oncology Patients.
- Initial experience and outcome of a new hemodialysis access device for catheter-dependent patients.
- Is There a Correlation Between Infection Control Performance and Other Hospital Quality Measures?
- Medically Attended Catheter Complications Are Common in Patients With Outpatient Central Venous Catheters.
- Neonatal candidiasis: epidemiology, risk factors, and clinical judgment.
- Outcomes of catheter-associated infections in pediatric patients with short bowel syndrome.
- Peripherally Inserted Central Venous Catheter Complications in Children Receiving Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy (OPAT).
- Predictors of Nonelective Removal of Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters in Infants.
- Prevention of intrathecal baclofen withdrawal syndrome: successful use of a temporary intrathecal catheter.
- Quality improvement in pediatrics: past, present, and future.
- Randomized Controlled Trial of Octyl Cyanoacrylate Skin Adhesive versus Subcuticular Suture for Skin Closure after Implantable Venous Port Placement.
- Recent changes in the NHSN definition for UTI: for better AND worse.
- Risk factors for peripherally inserted central venous catheter complications in children.
- Soft robotic concepts in catheter design: an on-demand fouling-release urinary catheter.
- Statewide costs of health care-associated infections: estimates for acute care hospitals in North Carolina.
- Sustaining reductions in catheter related bloodstream infections in Michigan intensive care units: observational study.
- The Effect of Adding Comorbidities to Current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Central-Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection Risk-Adjustment Methodology.
- The Impact of 2015 NHSN Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) Definition Change on Central Line-associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI) Rates and CLABSI Prevention Efforts at an Academic Medical Center.
- The epidemiology and diagnosis of invasive candidiasis among premature infants.
- The evolving landscape of healthcare-associated infections: recent advances in prevention and a road map for research.
- The growing importance of non-device-associated healthcare-associated infections: a relative proportion and incidence study at an academic medical center, 2008-2012.
- The network approach for prevention of healthcare-associated infections: long-term effect of participation in the Duke Infection Control Outreach Network.
- The potential impact of excluding funguria from the surveillance definition of catheter-associated urinary tract infection.
- To Be a CLABSI or Not to Be a CLABSI-That is the Question: The Epidemiology of BSI in a Large ECMO Population.
- Treatment and prophylaxis of invasive candidiasis.
- Tunneled internal jugular hemodialysis catheters: impact of laterality and tip position on catheter dysfunction and infection rates.
- Urinary catheter capable of repeated on-demand removal of infectious biofilms via active deformation.
- Urinary tract infections in meningioma patients: analysis of risk factors and outcomes.
- We still go for the jugular: implications of the 3SITES central venous catheter study for nephrology.
- Which Comorbid Conditions Should We Be Analyzing as Risk Factors for Healthcare-Associated Infections?
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Keywords of People
- Cohen-Wolkowiez, Michael, Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases
- Kim, Charles Yoon, Associate Professor of Radiology, Radiology, Interventional Radiology
- Moehring, Rebekah, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Infectious Diseases