Shailen N. Banerjee

TL;DR: A risk index was developed to predict a surgical patient's risk of acquiring an SWI as mentioned in this paper, ranging from 0 to 3, is the number of risk factors present among the following: a patient with an American Society of Anesthesiologists preoperative assessment score of 3, 4, or 5, an operation classified as contaminated or dirty-infected, and an operation lasting over T hours, where T depends upon the operative procedure being performed.

TL;DR: More than 25,000 primary bloodstream infections (BSIs) were identified by 124 National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System hospitals performing hospital-wide surveillance during the 10-year period 1980-1989.

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.

TL;DR: This study suggests that hospitals of all sizes are facing the problem of MRSA, the problem appears to be increasing regardless of hospital size, and control measures advocated for MRSA appear to require re-evaluation.

TL;DR: Bacterial contamination of blood components can result in transfusion‐transmitted infection, but the risk is not established, and the risk of infection is notestablished.