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March 01, 2007 - Postoperatively, she was started
on clindamycin for surgical site infection prophylaxis. … A widespread infection of the surgical site with destruction of the jugular sheath and erosion into the … prophylaxis and improved selection of empiric antibiotics are critical in
the prevention of surgical site infections … Exploring obstacles to proper timing of prophylactic antibiotics for surgical
site infections. … Reducing surgical site infections through a multidisciplinary computerized
process for preoperative
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April 30, 2014 - Use of simulation-based education to reduce catheter-
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September 01, 2008 - Severe multisystem disease without a clear diagnosis
is more often caused by infection, malignancy, … Indeed, in the absence of infection, it
often is appropriate to test the hypothesis that the problem … high doses of glucocorticoids are indicated to
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October 01, 2012 - The delay in recognition of this patient's syphilis infection could have resulted in significant morbidity … Infection with syphilis and other ulcerative and non-ulcerative STDs increases the risk of HIV transmission … or a previously treated infection. … It is estimated that STD cases reported to CDC represent only 50%-80% of reportable STD infections in … Resources From the Same Author(s)
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August 21, 2014 - and can mask the severity of the underlying infection. … Managing skin and soft tissue infections: expert panel
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April 20, 2011 - Incident reports were filed much more frequently for patients who were under isolation precautions for
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March 08, 2017 - This newspaper article
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August 03, 2010 - Monitoring and reducing central line-associated
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infection control measures—is one of the leading successes of the patient safety … , and most
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May 01, 2014 - able to successfully get its hand
hygiene rate from 50% to 90%, do you have any sense of how many infections … However, it's clear that you cannot always monitor all health care–associated infections, and
some of … Many studies looked at the overall prevalence of infections. … control measures, so it's difficult to say that hand hygiene is actually responsible for the total
infections … infections, ventilator-associated pneumonia in the ICU, or surgical-site and urinary
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