Biostatistics for Healthcare Epidemiology and Infection Control Elizabeth A. Tolley It is common knowledge that investigators face challenges during all phases of planning and implementing research protocols. Clinical and experimental…
Healthcare-Associated Infections Related to the Use of Intravascular Devices Inserted for Short-Term Vascular Access Angela L. Hewlett Mark E. Rupp BACKGROUND AND CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE Short-term vascular catheters are vitally important…
the Electronic Health Record: An Essential Technology for Healthcare Epidemiology Andreas M. Kogelnik Justin V. Graham David C. Classen Healthcare is an information-intensive industry. Information management is integral to clinical…
Using the Personal Computer for Healthcare Epidemiology John A. Sellick Jr. Keith F. Woeltje Rebecca Wurtz We live in the information age. The effective and comprehensive use of digital information…
Working With the News Media in Public Communication Marjorie Kruvand Outbreaks. Pandemics. MRSA. E. coli. H1N1. Salmonella. C. diff. West Nile virus. Surgical-site infections. Mandatory infection reporting. These are some…
Public Reporting of Healthcare-Associated Infections Ingi Lee Patrick J. Brennan BURDEN OF HEALTHCARE-ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS In 2000, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health…
Conducting Successful Improvement Projects Marisel Segarra-Newnham Ronald G. Berglund In the Third Edition of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control edited by C. Glen Mayhall, there are two chapters (Chapters 10…
Selecting Improvement Projects David Birnbaum Epidemiology, as a process for logical inquiry, has much in common with systems analysis or industrial engineering (also known as management engineering) (1). Similar perspectives…
Creating A Culture of Excellence Ulises Ruiz José Simón This chapter examines how the existing systems of healthcare fall short of what their quality should be, what the evolution of…
Pseudoinfections and Pseudo-Outbreaks Cheston B. Cunha Burke A. Cunha From an infection control and clinical perspective, pseudoinfections are interesting and important. On a daily basis, there are many concerns confronting…
