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Margaret A Dudeck
Researcher at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Publications - 21
Citations - 5483
Margaret A Dudeck is an academic researcher from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 17 publications receiving 4605 citations.
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CDC/NHSN surveillance definition of health care-associated infection and criteria for specific types of infections in the acute care setting.
TL;DR: In this paper, the NHSN criteria for all healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are presented, including those for the "Big Four" (surgical site infection [SSI], pneumonia [PNEU], bloodstream infection [BSI] and urinary tract infection [UTI]).
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Antibiotic Stewardship Programs in U.S. Acute Care Hospitals: Findings From the 2014 National Healthcare Safety Network Annual Hospital Survey.
Lori A. Pollack,Katharina L. van Santen,Lindsey M. Weiner,Margaret A Dudeck,Jonathan R. Edwards,Arjun Srinivasan +5 more
TL;DR: It is shown that ASP implementation varies across the United States and a baseline to monitor progress toward national goals is provided and comprehensive ASPs can be established in facilities of any size.
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The impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on healthcare-associated infections in 2020: A summary of data reported to the National Healthcare Safety Network.
Lindsey M Weiner-Lastinger,Vaishnavi Pattabiraman,Rebecca Konnor,Prachi R Patel,Emily Wong,Sunny Y Xu,Brittany Smith,Jonathan R. Edwards,Margaret A Dudeck +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on healthcare-associated infection (HAI) incidence in US hospitals, national and state-level standardized infection ratios (SIRs) were calculated for each quarter in 2020 and compared to those from 2019.
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Continued Increases in HAI Incidence During the Second Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Lindsey Lastinger,C. Alvarez,Aaron Kofman,Rebecca Konnor,David T. Kuhar,Allan Nkwata,Prachi R Patel,Vaishnavi Pattabiraman,Sunny Y. Xu,Margaret A Dudeck +9 more
TL;DR: National Healthcare Safety Network data were analyzed to assess the impact of COVID-19 on the incidence of healthcare-associated infections during 2021 and standardized infection ratios were significantly higher than those during the pre-pandemic period.
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Continued increases in the incidence of healthcare-associated infection (HAI) during the second year of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic
Lindsey Lastinger,C. Alvarez,Aaron Kofman,Rebecca Konnor,David T. Kuhar,Allan Nkwata,Prachi R Patel,Vaishnavi Pattabiraman,Sunny Y. Xu,Margaret A Dudeck +9 more
TL;DR: The incidence of HAI was elevated during periods of high COVID-19 hospitalizations, and standardized infection ratios were significantly higher than those during the prepandemic period.