The Effect of a Nationwide Infection Control Program Expansion on Hospital-Onset Gram-Negative Rod Bacteremia in 130 Veterans Health Administration Medical Centers: An Interrupted Time-Series Analysis | Zendy

Michihiko Goto | Zendy; Amy M. J. O’Shea | Zendy; Daniel J. Livorsi | Zendy; Jennifer S. McDanel | Zendy; Makoto Jones | Zendy; Kelly Richardson | Zendy; Brice Beck | Zendy; Bruce Alexander | Zendy; Martin E. Evans | Zendy; Gary A. Roselle | Zendy; Stephen M. Kralovic | Zendy; Eli N. Perencevich | Zendy

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The Effect of a Nationwide Infection Control Program Expansion on Hospital-Onset Gram-Negative Rod Bacteremia in 130 Veterans Health Administration Medical Centers: An Interrupted Time-Series Analysis

Author(s) -

Michihiko Goto,

Amy M. J. O’Shea,

Daniel J. Livorsi,

Jennifer S. McDanel,

Makoto Jones,

Kelly Richardson,

Brice Beck,

Bruce Alexander,

Martin E. Evans,

Gary A. Roselle,

Stephen M. Kralovic,

Eli N. Perencevich

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1093/cid/ciw423

Subject(s) - bacteremia , medicine , incidence (geometry) , confidence interval , interrupted time series analysis , emergency medicine , retrospective cohort study , infection control , cohort , surgery , antibiotics , microbiology and biotechnology , physics , statistics , mathematics , optics , biology

The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) introduced the Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Prevention Initiative in March 2007. Although the initiative has been perceived as a vertical intervention focusing on MRSA, it also expanded infection prevention and control programs and resources. We aimed to assess the horizontal effect of the initiative on hospital-onset (HO) gram-negative rod (GNR) bacteremia.

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