Secular trends in nosocomial primary bloodstream infections in the United States, 1980–1989

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed guidelines for healthcare personnel who insert intravascular catheters and for persons responsible for surveillance and control of infections in hospital, outpatient, and home healthcare settings.

TL;DR: O'Grady et al. as mentioned in this paper presented a list of the members of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) and the Infectious Disease Task Force (IDTF).

TL;DR: These data, based on prospective studies of adults, show that all types of IVDs pose a risk of IVD-related BSI and can be used for benchmarking rates of infection caused by the various types of intravascular devices in use at the present time.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present national data regarding objectively determined COPD (1971-1994), COPD-associated activity and functional limitations (1980-1996), self-reported COPD prevalence, COPD physician office and hospital outpatient department visits, and COPD hospitalizations, and deaths.

TL;DR: This report reviews the experience with Gram-negative bacteremia during an 8-year period at the University of Illinois Research and Educational Hospitals and determines the etiology and some aspects of the ecology of these infections.

TL;DR: Age, underlying host disease, granulocytopenia, congestive heart failure, diabetes mellitus, renal insufficiency, nosocomial infections, and antecedent treatment with antibiotics, corticosteroids, and antimetabolites significantly increased fatality rates.

TL;DR: Major shifts in the etiology of nosocomial infection have occurred in the decade of the 1980s, and the shifts are away from more easily treated pathogens toward more resistant pathogens with fewer options for therapy.

TL;DR: The National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System (NNIS) is an ongoing collaborative surveillance system sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to obtain national data on nosocomial infections to develop and evaluate strategies to prevent and control nosocomials infections.