The incidences of inducible clindamycin resistance at two hospitals (an inner-city hospital and a suburban community hospital) were 7 and 12% for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, 20 and 19% for methicillin-susceptible S. aureus, and 14 and 35% for coagulase-negative staphylococci, respectively. Given the variability of inducible resistance to clindamycin found in our two hospitals, ...

Recent evaluations of the impact of Turkish healthcare reforms on the efficiency of public hospitals suffer from simultaneous structural changes in the healthcare sector as well as from lack of data on some of the key ingredients of the reform. In this note, we analyze the major obstacles in a fair evaluation of the efficiency of public hospitals taking Sulku(2011)’s data envelopment analysis a...

G. S. Sandhu, R. P. Rezaee, K. Wright, J. A. Jesberger, M. A. Griswold, and V. Gulani Radiology, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States, Case Center for Imaging Research, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States, Case Center for Imaging Research, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University,...

OBJECTIVE To characterize the epidemiology of bloodstream infections in Switzerland, comparing selected pathogens in community and university hospitals. DESIGN Observational, retrospective, multicenter laboratory surveillance study. METHODS Data on bloodstream infections from 2008 through 2014 were obtained from the Swiss infection surveillance system, which is part of the Swiss Centre for Anti...

Streptococcus pneumoniae is an important cause of community-acquired bacterial pneumonia, meningitis, acute otitis media, and other infections. Infants, young children, and the elderly are most severely affected by pneumococcal disease. Although S. pneumoniae was once considered to be routinely susceptible to penicillin, since the mid-1980s the incidence of resistance of this organism to penici...

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G. S. Sandhu, R. P. Rezaee, J. L. Duerk, M. A. Griswold, and V. Gulani Department of Radiology, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, United States, Case Center for Imaging Research, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, United States, Department of Bi...