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Donald Blom
Researcher at Rush University Medical Center
Publications - 10
Citations - 1563
Donald Blom is an academic researcher from Rush University Medical Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Psychological intervention & Intensive care unit. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 10 publications receiving 1468 citations.
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Reduction in Acquisition of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus after Enforcement of Routine Environmental Cleaning Measures
Mary K. Hayden,Marc J. M. Bonten,Donald Blom,Elizabeth A. Lyle,David A. M. C. van de Vijver,Robert A. Weinstein +5 more
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.
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Risk of hand or glove contamination after contact with patients colonized with vancomycin-resistant enterococcus or the colonized patients' environment.
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.
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Chlorhexidine Gluconate to Cleanse Patients in a Medical Intensive Care Unit: The Effectiveness of Source Control to Reduce the Bioburden of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci
Michael O. Vernon,Mary K. Hayden,William E. Trick,Robert Hayes,Donald Blom,Robert A. Weinstein +5 more
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.
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Transfer of vancomycin-resistant enterococci via health care worker hands.
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.
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Prevention of Colonization and Infection by Klebsiella pneumoniae Carbapenemase–Producing Enterobacteriaceae in Long-term Acute-Care Hospitals
Mary K. Hayden,Michael Y. Lin,Karen Lolans,Shayna Weiner,Donald Blom,Nicholas M. Moore,Louis Fogg,David Henry,Rosie D. Lyles,Caroline J Thurlow,Monica K. Sikka,David W. Hines,Robert A. Weinstein +12 more
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.