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…
Investigation of Outbreaks William R. Jarvis Although the majority of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) in a given healthcare facility are endemic (1), outbreaks of HAIs may occur, usually in a specific…
Meta-Analysis and Systematic Reviews of the Literature in Healthcare Epidemiology and Infection Control Nasia Safdar Sanjay Saint Mary A.M. Rogers With the growing use of evidence-based medicine and the increase…
Practical Application of the Principles of Epidemiology to Study Design and Data Analysis Joseph H. Abramson Suppose that examinations of 200 workers in a hospital reveal that 24 are carriers…
