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T.Grace Emori
Researcher at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Publications - 27
Citations - 17564
T.Grace Emori is an academic researcher from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The author has contributed to research in topics: Surgical wound & Infection control. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 27 publications receiving 16910 citations. Previous affiliations of T.Grace Emori include United States Public Health Service & United States Department of Health and Human Services.
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CDC definitions for nosocomial infections, 1988
TL;DR: The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) developed a new set of definitions for surveillance of nosocomial infections as mentioned in this paper, which combine specific clinical findings with results of laboratory and other tests that include recent advances in diagnostic technology.
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CDC definitions of nosocomial surgical site infections, 1992: A modification of CDC definitions of surgical wound infections
TL;DR: The definition of surgical wound infection was slightly modified and the name was changed to surgical site infection (SSI), which should be used by hospitals wishing to compare their SSI data with NNIS System data.
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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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CDC definitions of nosocomial surgical site infections, 1992: a modification of CDC definitions of surgical wound infections.
TL;DR: The definition of surgical wound infection was modified and the name was changed to surgical site infection (SSI) after the NNIS System hospitals had had considerable experience with the definitions.
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Surgical wound infection rates by wound class, operative procedure, and patient risk index
David H. Culver,Teresa C. Horan,Robert P. Gaynes,William J. Martone,William R. Jarvis,T.Grace Emori,Shailen N. Banerjee,Jonathan R. Edwards,James S. Tolson,Tonya S. Henderson,James M. Hughes +10 more
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.