Volume 39


Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology 2018


CONTENTS Original Articles


897 Centers for medicare and medicaid services hospital-acquired conditions policy for central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) and cather-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) shows minimal impact on hospital reimbursement Michael S. Calderwood, Alison Tse Kawai, Robert Jin and Grace M. Lee


902 Reducing indwelling urinary catheter use through staged introduction of electronic clinical decision support in a multicenter hospital system Brett E. Youngerman, Hojjat Salmasian, Eileen J. Carter, Michael L. Loftus, Rimma Perotte, Barbara G. Ross, E. Yoko Furuya, Robert A. Green and David K. Vawdrey


909 Transmission of Clostridium difficile from asymptomatically colonized or infected long-term care facility residents Curtis J. Donskey, Venkata C. K. Sunkesula, Nimalie D. Stone, Carolyn V. Gould, L. Clifford McDonald, Matthew Samore, JeanMarie Mayer, Susan M. Pacheco, Annette L. Jencson, Susan P. Sambol, Laurica A. Petrella, Christopher A. Gulvik and Dale N. Gerding


917 Increased environmental sample area and recovery of Clostridium difficile spores from hospital surfaces by quantitative PCR and enrichment culture Kevin Antoine Brown, Laura K. MacDougall, Kim Valenta, Andrew Simor, Jennie Johnstone, Samira Mubareka, George Broukhanski, Gary Garber, Allison McGeer and Nick Daneman


924 Cost-effectiveness of three different strategies for the treatment of first recurrent Clostridium difficile infection diagnosed in a community setting Simon W. Lam, Elizabeth A. Neuner, Thomas G. Fraser, David Delgado, and Donald B. Chalfin


931 Validation of semiautomated surgical site infection surveillance using electronic screening algorithms in 38 surgery categories Sun Young Cho, Doo Ryeon Chung, Jong Rim Choi, Doo Mi Kim, Si-Ho Kim, Kyungmin Huh, Cheol-In Kang and Kyong Ran Peck


936 Outpatient antimicrobial stewardship targets for treatment of skin and soft-tissue infections Preeti Jaggi, Ling Wang, Sean Gleeson, Melissa Moore-Clingenpeel and Joshua R. Watson


941 Assessing the impact of antibiotic stewardship program elements on antibiotic use across acute-care hospitals: an observational study Bradley J. Langford, Julie Hui-Chih Wu, Kevin A. Brown, Xuesong Wang, Valerie Leung, Charlie Tan, Gary Garber and Nick Daneman


947 A retrospective analysis of adverse events among patients receiving daptomycin versus vancomycin during outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy Gregory M. Schrank, Sharon B. Wright, Westyn Branch-Elliman and Mary T. LaSalvia


955 The effect of timing of oseltamivir chemoprophylaxis in controlling influenza A H3N2 outbreaks in long-term care facilities in Manitoba, Canada, 2014-2015: a retrospective cohort study Davinder Singh, Depeng Jiang, Paul Van Caeseele and Carla Loeppky


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