Model-based Assessment of the Effect of Contact Precautions Applied to Surveillance-detected Carriers of Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in Long-term Acute Care Hospitals | Zendy

Damon Toth | Zendy; Karim Khader | Zendy; Alexander B. Beams | Zendy; Matthew H. Samore | Zendy

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Model-based Assessment of the Effect of Contact Precautions Applied to Surveillance-detected Carriers of Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in Long-term Acute Care Hospitals

Author(s) -

Damon Toth,

Karim Khader,

Alexander B. Beams,

Matthew H. Samore

Publication year - 2019

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/ciz557

Subject(s) - medicine , carriage , transmission (telecommunications) , confidence interval , bacteremia , bathing , hygiene , infection control , intervention (counseling) , emergency medicine , intensive care medicine , microbiology and biotechnology , pathology , nursing , electrical engineering , engineering , biology , antibiotics

An intervention that successfully reduced colonization and infection with carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) in Chicago-area long-term acute-care hospitals included active surveillance and contact precautions. However, the specific effects of contact precautions applied to surveillance-detected carriers on patient-to-patient transmission are unknown, as other, concurrent intervention components or changes in facility patient dynamics also could have affected the observed outcomes.

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