Robert W. Haley
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
188 Papers
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Robert W. Haley is an academic researcher from University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Gulf War syndrome. The author has an hindex of 57, co-authored 188 publications. Previous affiliations of Robert W. Haley include University of Michigan & Emory University.
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Papers
The efficacy of infection surveillance and control programs in preventing nosocomial infections in US hospitals.
Robert W. Haley,David H. Culver,John W. White,W. Meade Morgan,T.Grace Emori,Van P. Munn,Thomas M. Hooton +6 more
TL;DR: It is found that the establishment of intensive infection surveillance and control programs was strongly associated with reductions in rates of nosocomial urinary tract infection, surgical wound infection, pneumonia, and bacteremia between 1970 and 1975-1976, after controlling for other characteristics of the hospitals and their patients.
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The nationwide nosocomial infection rate. A new need for vital statistics.
TL;DR: If adjustments are made for the accuracy of the diagnostic method, the increasing nationwide secular trend, and the number of nosocomial infections in nursing homes, however, as many as 4 million nosocomIAL infections per year may now be occurring.
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Identifying patients at high risk of surgical wound infection a simple multivariate index of patient susceptibility and wound contamination
Robert W. Haley,David H. Culver,W. Meade Morgan,John W. White,T.Grace Emori,Thomas M. Hooton +5 more
TL;DR: The authors used information collected on 58,498 patients undergoing operations in 1970 to develop a simple multivariate risk index and found that a subgroup, consisting of half the surgical patients, can be identified in whom 90% of the surgical wound infections will develop.
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Disconnect between incidence of nonperforated and perforated appendicitis: implications for pathophysiology and management.
TL;DR: The 25-year decline in nonperforated appendicitis and the recent increase in appendectomies coincident with more frequent use of CT imaging and laparoscopic appendECTomies did not result in expected decreases in perforation rates, and a disconnection of trends suggests that perforated and nonper forated appendicedis may have different pathophysiologies.
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The Emergence of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections in United States Hospitals: Possible Role of the House Staff-Patient Transfer Circuit
Robert W. Haley,Allen W. Hightower,Rima F. Khabbaz,Clyde Thornsberry,William J. Martone,James R. Allen,James M. Hughes +6 more
TL;DR: Infections with methicillin-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus appear to be occurring with increasing frequency in some U.S. hospitals about a decade after a similar increase in Britain and other countries.
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