Michael Klompas

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest that N95 respirators may be just as important for the care of patients without suspected Covid-19 when community incidence rates are high as they are for patients with suspected SARS-CoV-2 infection.

TL;DR: The incidence rate of ND pneumonia did not change from 2013 to 2017, and 3 of 4 nosocomial pneumonia cases were non–device associated, and hospital infection prevention programs should consider expanding the scope of surveillance to include non-ventilated patients.

TL;DR: Electronic health records data enhance provider-based and laboratory-based disease reports and may facilitate more complete case reporting, and EHR data also provides corollary patient information that enables longitudinal disease reporting and analysis of important health outcomes.

TL;DR: These studies provide the first genomically-confirmed assessments of CDI relative risk from asymptomatic carriage of toxin-encoding strains and highlight the complex dynamics of asymPTomatic transmission in ICUs.

TL;DR: The ESP system produces percent ILI data of similar quality to sentinel surveillance and offers the advantages of shifting disease reporting burden from clinicians to information systems, allowing tracking of disease by age group, facilitating efficient surveillance for very large populations, and producing consistent and timely reports.