1292. Incidence of norovirus-associated acute gastroenteritis in four Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center populations in the United States, 20112012 Scott Grytdal, MPH; David Rimland, MD; S. Hannah Shirley,; Maria C. RodriguezBarradas, MD; Matthew Bidwell Goetz, MD; Sheldon Brown,; Cynthia LuceroObusan, MD; Mark Holodniy, MD; Christopher Graber, MD, MPH; Umesh D. Parashar, MBBS, MPH; Jan Vinje, Ph...

Policymakers have prioritized the prevention of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) as a double-win that can both improve health outcomes and reduce healthcare costs. In the past few years, state and federal policymakers have developed policies to improve coordination and promote transparency and prevention. At the federal level, congressional oversight, policy directives, and targeted fund...

The provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are expected to increase demand for primary care services across the United States as millions of people gain health insurance through health insurance exchanges and expansion of Medicaid and children’s health insurance programs.1 Many of these newly insured patients will be medically complicated, and the millions of patients without insurance wil...

This report is a summary of Device-Associated (DA) and Procedure-Associated (PA) module data collected and reported by hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers participating in the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) from January 2006 through December 2008 as reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) by July 6, 2009. This report updates previously published DA and ...

BACKGROUND Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD) causes substantial healthcare-associated morbidity. Unlike other common healthcare-associated pathogens, little comparative information is available about CDAD rates in hospitalized patients. OBJECTIVES To determine CDAD rates per 10,000 patient-days and per 1,000 hospital admissions at 7 geographically diverse tertiary-care centers ...

Community Health Center, Inc. (CHCI), a multi-site, federally qualified, health center (FQHC) in Connecticut, implemented a one-year-residency program for new nurse practitioners (NPs) in 2007. This residency program is specifically designed for family nurse practitioners intending to practice as primary care providers in federally qualified health centers. These centers comprise the nation's l...

OBJECTIVES THIS STUDY SOUGHT TO FIND ANSWERS TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS: 1) Can we predict whether a patient will revisit a healthcare center? 2) Can we anticipate diseases of patients who revisit the center? METHODS For the first question, we applied 5 classification algorithms (decision tree, artificial neural network, logistic regression, Bayesian networks, and Naïve Bayes) and the stackin...

We reviewed the effect of 3 interventions to reduce the incidence of intraventricular catheter-related ventriculitis, conducted at a tertiary care center in St Louis, Missouri, during an 8-year period. The incidence density of intraventricular catheter-related ventriculitis decreased substantially after the implementation of standardized management of intraventricular catheters.

INTRODUCTION The Boston Marathon terrorist bombing that occurred on April 15, 2013 illustrates the importance of a cohesive, efficient management for the operating room and perioperative services. Conceptually, emotional intelligence (EI) is a form of social intelligence used by individuals in leadership positions to monitor the feelings and emotions of their team while implementing a strategic...