Volume 39


Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology 2018


CONTENTS Original Articles


765 Effectiveness of Probiotic for Primary Prevention of Clostridium difficile Infection: A Single-Center Before-and-After Quality Improvement Intervention at a Tertiary-Care Medical Center William E. Trick, Stephen J. Sokalski, Stuart Johnson, Kristen L. Bunnell, Joseph Levato, Michael J. Ray and Robert A. Weinstein


771 Microbial Preparations (Probiotics) for the Prevention of Clostridium difficile Infection in Adults and Children: An Individual Patient Data Meta-analysis of 6,851 Participants Bradley C. Johnston, Lyubov Lytvyn, Calvin Ka-Fung Lo, Stephen J. Allen, DuolaoWang, Hania Szajewska, Mark Miller, Stephan Ehrhardt, John Sampalis, Deniz G. Duman, Pietro Pozzoni, Agostino Colli, Elisabet Lönnermark, Christian P. Selinger, Samford Wong, Susan Plummer, Mary Hickson, Ruzha Pancheva, Sandra Hirsch, Bengt Klarin, Joshua Z Goldenberg, Li Wang, Lawrence Mbuagbaw, Gary Foster, Anna Maw, Behnam Sadeghirad, Lehana Thabane and Dominik Mertz


782 High Prevalence and Frequent Acquisition of Clostridium difficile Ribotype 002 Among Nursing Home Residents in Hong Kong Shik Luk, Alex Yat Man Ho, Eliza Hoi Ying Chan, Iris Hoi Ling Tsang, Tak Keung Ng,Wing Kin To, KinWing Choi and Andrew Tin Yau Wong


788 Noninfectious Hospital Adverse Events Decline After Elimination of Contact Precautions for MRSA and VRE Elise M. Martin, Brandy Bryant, Tristan R. Grogan, Zachary A. Rubin, Dana L. Russell, David Elashoff and Daniel Z. Uslan


797 Hospital-Level Variability in Broad-Spectrum Antibiotic Use for ChildrenWith Acute Leukemia Undergoing Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Caitlin W. Elgarten, Staci D. Arnold, Yimei Li, Yuan-Shung V. Huang, Marcie L. Riches, Jeffrey S. Gerber, Richard Aplenc, Wael Saber and Brian T. Fisher


806 Predictors of Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Recommendation Disagreement Laura L. Bio, Jenna F. Kruger, Betty P. Lee, Matthew S. Wood and Hayden T. Schwenk


814 Modified Reporting of Positive Urine Cultures to Reduce Inappropriate Treatment of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria Among Nonpregnant, Noncatheterized Inpatients: A Randomized Controlled Trial Peter Daley, David Garcia, Raheel Inayatullah, Carla Penney and Sarah Boyd


820 Assessing a National Collaborative Program To Prevent Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection in a Veterans Health Administration Nursing Home Cohort Sarah L. Krein, M. Todd Greene, Beth King, DeborahWelsh, Karen E. Fowler, BarbaraW. Trautner, David Ratz, Sanjay Saint, Gary Roselle, Marla Clifton, Stephen M. Kralovic, Tina Martin and Lona Mody


826 Real-Time, Automated Detection of Ventilator-Associated Events: Avoiding Missed Detections, Misclassifications, and False Detections Due to Human Error Erica S. Shenoy, Eric S. Rosenthal, Yu-Ping Shao, Siddharth Biswal, Manohar Ghanta, Erin E. Ryan, Dolores Suslak, Nancy Swanson, Valdery Moura Junior, David C. Hooper and M. Brandon Westover


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