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John W. White
Researcher at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Publications - 15
Citations - 5519
John W. White is an academic researcher from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The author has contributed to research in topics: Nosocomial infection control & Surgical wound. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 15 publications receiving 5376 citations. Previous affiliations of John W. White include United States Department of Health and Human Services & Temple University.
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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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National nosocomial infections surveillance system (NNIS): description of surveillance methods.
T.Grace Emori,David H. Culver,Teresa C. Horan,William R. Jarvis,John W. White,David R. Olson,Shailen N. Banerjee,Jonathan R. Edwards,William J. Martone,Robert P. Gaynes,James M. Hughes +10 more
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.
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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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Guidelines for Medical and Health Information Sites on the Internet: Principles Governing AMA Web Sites
Margaret A. Winker,Annette Flanagin,Bonnie I. Chi-Lum,John W. White,Karen Andrews,Robert L. Kennett,Catherine D. DeAngelis,Robert A. Musacchio +7 more
TL;DR: The American Medical Association (AMA) has developed principles to guide development and posting of Web site content, govern acquisition and posting online advertising and sponsorship, ensure site visitors' and patients' rights to privacy and confidentiality, and provide effective and secure means of e-commerce.