Donald Blom

TL;DR: Investigating the effects of improved environmental cleaning with and without promotion of hand hygiene adherence on the spread of vancomycin-resistant enterococci as a marker organism found decreased in period 2 and remained low thereafter, suggesting decreasing environmental contamination may help to control thespread of some antibiotic-resistant bacteria in hospitals.

TL;DR: HCWs were nearly as likely to have contaminated their hands or gloves after touched the environment in a room occupied by a patient colonized by VRE as after touching the colonized patient and the patient's environment.

TL;DR: Cleansing patients with chlorhexidine-saturated cloths is a simple, effective strategy to reduce VRE contamination of patients' skin, the environment, and health care workers' hands and to decrease patient acquisition of VRE.

TL;DR: Vancomycin-resistant enterococci were transferred from contaminated sites in the environment or on patients' intact skin to clean sites via HCW hands or gloves in 10.6% of opportunities.

TL;DR: A bundled intervention was associated with clinically important and statistically significant reductions in KPC colonization, KPC infection, all-cause bacteremia, and blood culture contamination in a high-risk LTACH population.