Article-at-a-Glance Background Contact with health care workers may be an important
means of infection transmission between patients, yet little is known about patterns of patient …

BACKGROUND Identifying patients most at risk for hospital- and community-associated
infections is one essential strategy for preventing infections. OBJECTIVE To investigate whether …

Article-at-a-Glance Background The use of electronic medical records to identify common
health care–associated infections (HAIs), including pneumonia, surgical site infections, …

Background: Surgical site infections (SSIs), the second most common healthcare-associated
infections, increase hospital stay and healthcare costs significantly. Traditional surveillance …

Background: Surgical site infection (SSI) after cardiac surgery (CS) is a serious complication
that increases hospital length of stay (LOS), has a substantial financial impact, and …

BACKGROUND: Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA)
infections are becoming increasingly prevalent. There is geographic variation in their …

Infection control in the healthcare setting is an essential component for patient safety and
quality of care. To assist with daily infection control functions, we have implemented an alert in …

This thesis focuses on the representation of African American and Mexican American history
in state-adopted 8th grade, public school Texas textbooks between 1965 and 1980. The …

Narrative is a boom industry. Narrative accounts appear routinely in major law reviews. 3
Proponents of narrative are found at many law schools, including the most prominent. 4 …

… In the Hyman and Zimmer study it was demonstrated that the acceptability of tf + NP to
express the causative agent depended upon the following person-animacy hierarchy: …