NEW Surveillance of Health Care-Acquired Infections in Queensland, Australia: Data and Lessons From the First 5 Years
NEW Potential Economic Impact of Hospital-Acquired Infections in Uninsured Patients: A Preliminary Investigation
NEW Going Further Faster II: Applying the learning to reduce HCAI and improve cleanliness
  Who Is Steering the Ship? External Influences on Infection Control Programs
  Administrative Coding Data, Compared with CDC/NHSN Criteria, are Poor Indicators of Health Care–Associated Infections
  National Prevalence of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus in Inpatients at U.S. Health Care Facilities, 2006
  Dissemination of the CDC's Hand Hygiene Guideline and Impact on Infection Rates
  Spreading the Word, Not the Infection: Reaching Hospitalists About the Prevention of Antimicrobial Resistance
  Consumer Attitudes About Health Care—Acquired Infections: A German Survey on Factors Considered Important in the Choice of a Hospital
  Multicenter Intervention Program to Increase Adherence to Hand Hygiene Recommendations and Glove Use and to Reduce the Incidence of Antimicrobial Resistance
  Underresourced Hospital Infection Control and Prevention Programs: Penny Wise, Pound Foolish?
  A Process for Analysis of Sentinel Events Due to Health Care-Associated Infection
  Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Study Results
  HSMR: A New Approach for Measuring Hospital Mortality Trends in Canada
  Tracking MRSA
  Eighty-Seven Percent of U.S. Hospitals Do Not Take Recommended Steps to Prevent Avoidable Infections
  “Superbug” Infections More Than Doubled in Hospitals, Study Finds
  The 5 Million Lives Campaign and Interventions for the ICU
  P4Ps on the Rise; Some Question Use of Plans
  Impact of Infection Control Interventions and Antibiotic Use on Hospital MRSA: A Multivariate Interrupted Time-Series Analysis
  Ecolab Hand Hygiene Compliance Monitoring Program Helps Hospitals Reduce Infections
  Poverty and Infection in the Developing World: Healthcare-Related Infections and Infection Control in the Tropics
  Device-Associated Nosocomial Infection Rates in Intensive Care Units of Seven Indian Cities. Findings of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC)
  VA Tops Private Hospitals in Infection-Control Study
  Hospital-Acquired Infections in Pennsylvania 2005
  MRSA, MRSA Me
  A Statewide Survey of Nosocomial Infection Surveillance in Acute Care Hospitals
  Epidemiology of Hospital-Acquired Bloodstream Infections in a Tunisian Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: A 2-Year Prospective Study
  Monitoring Hospital-Acquired Infections to Promote Patient Safety -- United States, 1990-1999
  Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs)
  Testimony of Robert W. Haley, MD, to the U.S. House of Representatives: Public Reporting of Hospital-Acquired Infection Rates: Empowering Consumers, Saving Lives
  WHO—Global Patient Safety Challenge
  Study Finds ICU Nurse Working Conditions Linked to Increase in Patient Infections
  Antimicrobial Coating of Devices for Prevention of Infection: Principles and Protection
  Healthcare-Associated Infection in Developing Countries: Simple Solutions to Meet Complex Challenges
  Inflammation and Infection Complications of 2285 Perineural Catheters: A Prospective Study
  The Challenge of Healthcare-Associated Infection Outside Hospital
  Point Prevalence Survey for Healthcare-Associated Infections within Canadian Adult Acute-Care Hospitals
  Many Mass. Hospitals Will Pay for Errors
  The First Global Patient Safety Challenge “Clean Care is Safer Care”: From Launch to Current Progress and Achievements
  The Role for Leaders of Health Care Organizations in Patient Safety
  2007 Hospital Performance Report — State of New Jersey
  Health Care-Associated Infections: Major Issues in the Early Years of the 21st Century
  Uniform: An Evidence Review of the Microbiological Significance of Uniforms and Uniform Policy in the Prevention and Control of Health Care-Associated Infections. Report to The Department Of Health (England)
  Clinical Effectiveness of Alcohol-Based Products in Increasing Hand Hygiene Compliance and Reducing Infection Rates: A Systematic Review
  Impact of a Five-Year Surveillance of Central Venous Catheter Infections in the REACAT Intensive Care Unit Network in France
 

Comparison of the Antibacterial Efficacy and Acceptability of an Alcohol-Based Hand Rinse with Two Alcohol-Based Hand Gels During Routine Patient Care
  Hospital and Community Acquired Infection and the Built Environment – Design and Testing Of Infection Control Rooms
  Infection Control Education: How to Make An Impact — Tools for the Job
  Supporting Evidence-Based Infection Prevention and Control Practice in the National Health Service in England. The NHS/TVU/Intuition Approach
  Surveillance of Hospital-Acquired Infections in Australia – One Nation, Many States
  Mandatory Public Reporting in the USA: An Example to Follow?
  The United States Approach to Strategies in the Battle Against Health Care-Associated Infections, 2006: Transitioning From Benchmarking to Zero Tolerance and Clinician Accountability
  Raising Standards While Watching the Bottom Line: Making a Business Case for Infection Control
  New Medicare Regulations Adopted to Reduce Certain Hospital Infections and Medical Errors
  Hospitals Battle Infection, Prepare to Report Rates
  Hospital Infection May Cost $473 M
  Comparison of Automated Strategies for Surveillance of Nosocomial Bacteremia
  The Ethics of Infection Control: Philosophical Frameworks
  A Model for Calculating Costs of Hospital-Acquired Infections: An Italian Experience
  NHS Scotland National HAI Prevalence Survey
  Infection Prevention and Control Best Practices for Long Term Care, Home and Community Care including Health Care Offices and Ambulatory Clinics
  Probiotics for Preventing and Treating Nosocomial Infections
  Construction: A Model Program for Infection Control Compliance
  Efficacy of 2 Alcohol-Based Gels and 1 Alcohol-Based Rinse for Surgical Hand Disinfection
  Reduction in Hospital wide Incidence of Infection or Colonization with Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus with Use of Antimicrobial Hand-Hygiene Gel and Statistical Process Control Charts
  Groundbreaking Report Shows Alarming MRSA Infection Rates At U.S. Hospitals
  State Legislatures Weigh In on Hospital-Acquired Infection
  Validation of Surveillance in the Intensive Care Unit Component of the German Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System
  Nosocomial Bacteremia in Children: A 15-year Experience at a General Hospital in Mexico
  Risk Factors for Death Due to Nosocomial Infection in Intensive Care Unit Patients: Findings from the Krankenhaus Infektions Surveillance System
  Outbreak of Bloodstream Infection Temporally Associated with the Use of an Intravascular Needleless Valve
  A Point Prevalence Survey of Healthcare-Associated Infections in Pediatric Populations in Major Canadian Acute Care Hospitals
  Risk Factors for Late-Onset Healthcare-Associated Bloodstream Infections in Patients in Neonatal Intensive Care Units
  National Evidence-Based Guidelines for Preventing Healthcare-Associated Infections in NHS Hospitals In England
  Comparisons of Healthcare-Associated Infections Identification Using Two Mechanisms for Public Reporting
  The Certification Board of Infection Control and Epidemiology White Paper: The Value of Certification for Infection Control Professionals
  Healthcare Costs Associated with Hemodialysis Catheter-Related Infections: A Single-Center Experience
  Device-Associated Nosocomial Infection Rates in Intensive Care Units in Greece
  Nosocomial Infection in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Prospective Study in Taiwan
  A 10-year Prospective Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections in Neonatal Intensive Care Units
  Nurse Staffing Level and Nosocomial Infections: Empirical Evaluation of the Case-Crossover and Case-Time-Control Designs
  The ORION Statement: Guidelines for Transparent Reporting of Outbreak Reports and Intervention Studies of Nosocomial infection
  Pittsburgh Hospital: The Bug Stops Here
  Partners in Safety: Implementing a Community-Based Patient Safety Advisory Council
  Bid to Cut Hospital Infections Gains Traction in Legislature
  Guidance on Public Reporting of Healthcare-Associated Infections: Recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee
  Dispelling the Myths: The True Cost of Healthcare-Associated Infections
  Legislative Mandates for Use of Active Surveillance Cultures to Screen for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus and Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci: Position Statement from the Joint SHEA and APIC Task Force
  Adverse Outcomes from Hospital-Acquired Infection in Pennsylvania Cannot Be Attributed to Increased Risk on Admission
  Device-Associated Hospital-Acquired Infection Rates in Turkish Intensive Care Units. Findings of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC)
  Effect of Healthcare-Acquired Infection on Length of Hospital Stay and Cost
  Deadly Hospital Infections: Which Hospitals Are Best, Worst and How You Can Tell
  Public Reporting and Pay for Performance in Hospital Quality Improvement
  The Establishment of a Statewide Surveillance Program for Hospital-Acquired Infections in Large Victorian Public Hospitals: A Report from the VICNISS Coordinating Centre
  Guidance on Public Reporting of Healthcare-Associated Infections: Recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee
  VICNISS Hospital Acquired Infection Project
  Hospital Infections More Likely to Lead to Deaths, Study Says
  AQA Adopts Additional Standard Quality Measures for Practitioners in 25 Surgical and Medical Specialties
  To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System
  HAIs and SSIs: National Incentives Aim to Control These Killers
  Delaware Valley Hospitals Improve on Key Infection-Prevention Measures
  The Third Prevalence Survey of Healthcare-associated Infections in Acute Hospitals
  Social Marketing: A Behavior Change Technology for Infection Control
  Cost of Intensive Care Unit-Acquired Bloodstream Infections
  A Prospective Study of Outcomes, Healthcare Resource Utilization, and Costs Associated With Postoperative Nosocomial Infections
  Device-Associated Nosocomial Infections in 55 Intensive Care Units of 8 Developing Countries
  First Year of Mandatory Reporting of Healthcare-Associated Infections, Pennsylvania: An Infection Control-Chart Abstractor Collaboration
  Favorable Impact of an Infection Control Network on Nosocomial Infection Rates in Community Hospitals
  Improving Patient Safety: Resource Availability and Application for Reducing the Incidence of Healthcare-Associated Infection
  Nosocomial Infections in Neurocritical Care
  Vascular Catheters Inserted in the Trenches Versus Guideline Documents: Can the Discrepancies be Resolved?
  Public Disclosure of Healthcare-Associated Infections: The Role of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America
  Nosocomial Infections: A Discussion of the Problem
and the Most Common Types
  Several HAI Initiatives Begin to Show Results
  State Legislatures Weigh In on Hospital-Acquired Infection