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List of works by Deborah S Yokoe

839. Effect of Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) Toxin Test Reporting on Clinical Treatment and Outcomes of Toxin-Negative PCR-Positive Patients at Five California Hospitals

84. Evaluation of the NHSN Standardized Infection Ratio (SIR) Risk Adjustment for HO-CDI in Oncology and ICU Patients in General Acute Care Hospitals

915Is a hospital's surgical site infection rate among Medicare-insured patients a good indicator of outcome for commercially-insured patients?

scientific article published in December 2014

942How Do Hospitals Detect Outbreaks?

scientific article published in December 2014

A Cluster of CNS Infections Due to B. cereus in the Setting of Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Neuropathology in 5 Patients

scientific article published on 08 September 2015

A Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2014 Updates

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A compendium of strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections in acute care hospitals

scientific article published on 01 October 2008

A compendium of strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections in acute care hospitals: 2014 updates

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A compendium of strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections in acute care hospitals: 2014 updates

scientific article published on 01 September 2014

A multicenter study of Clostridium difficile infection-related colectomy, 2000-2006.

scientific article published on 20 March 2012

Admission-specific chronic disease scores as alternative predictors of surgical site infection for patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery

scientific article published on 20 July 2006

An algorithm to match registries with minimal disclosure of individual identities

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Approaches for preventing healthcare-associated infections: go long or go wide?

scientific article published on September 2014

Approaches for preventing healthcare-associated infections: go long or go wide?

scientific article published on July 2014

Asymptomatic Transmission, the Achilles' Heel of Current Strategies to Control Covid-19

scientific article published on 24 April 2020

Attitudes of healthcare workers in U.S. hospitals regarding smallpox vaccination

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Automated detection of infectious disease outbreaks in hospitals: a retrospective cohort study.

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Automated methods for surveillance of surgical site infections

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Automated outbreak detection of hospital-associated pathogens: Value to infection prevention programs

scientific article published on 10 June 2020

Automated surveillance of health care-associated infections

scientific article published on May 2009

Beyond 30 days: does limiting the duration of surgical site infection follow-up limit detection?

scientific article published on 20 December 2011

Clinical Outcomes and Serologic Response in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients with COVID-19: A Case Series from the United States

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

Clinical risk factors for severe Clostridium difficile-associated disease

scientific article published on March 2009

Cost-effectiveness of strategies to prevent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus transmission and infection in an intensive care unit

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Detection of postoperative surgical-site infections: comparison of health plan-based surveillance with hospital-based programs

scientific article published on October 2003

Developing a risk stratification model for surgical site infection after abdominal hysterectomy.

scientific article published on November 2009

Differential Effects of Chlorhexidine Skin Cleansing Methods on Residual Chlorhexidine Skin Concentrations and Bacterial Recovery

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Diverse Vectors and Mechanisms Spread New Delhi Metallo-β-Lactamases among Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae in the Greater Boston Area

scientific article published on 29 January 2019

Does a quality improvement campaign accelerate take-up of new evidence? A ten-state cluster-randomized controlled trial of the Institute for Health Improvement's Project JOINTS.

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Does nonpayment for hospital-acquired catheter-associated urinary tract infections lead to overtesting and increased antimicrobial prescribing?

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ESCMID guidelines for the management of the infection control measures to reduce transmission of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria in hospitalized patients

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Ebola fever: reconciling planning with risk in U.S. hospitals

scientific article published on November 2014

Effect of daily chlorhexidine bathing on hospital-acquired infection

scientific article published in February 2013

Effectiveness of a multistate quality improvement campaign in reducing risk of surgical site infections following hip and knee arthroplasty

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Enhanced identification of postoperative infections among inpatients

scientific article published in November 2004

Enhanced identification of postoperative infections among outpatients

scientific article published in November 2004

Enhanced surgical site infection surveillance following hysterectomy, vascular, and colorectal surgery.

scientific article published on 21 June 2012

Environmental Cleaning Intervention and Risk of Acquiring Multidrug-Resistant Organisms From Prior Room Occupants

scientific article published on March 28, 2011

Epidemiologic Investigation of a Cluster of Neuroinvasive Bacillus cereus Infections in 5 Patients With Acute Myelogenous Leukemia

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Epidemiology of and Surveillance for Postpartum Infections

scientific article published on September 1, 2001

Epidemiology of neonatal infections: experience during and after hospitalization

scientific article published in March 2003

Erratum to: Does a quality improvement campaign accelerate take-up of new evidence? A ten-state cluster-randomized controlled trial of the IHI's Project JOINTS.

scientific article published on 10 May 2017

Evaluation of the National Healthcare Safety Network standardized infection ratio risk adjustment for healthcare-facility-onset Clostridioides difficile infection in intensive care, oncology, and hematopoietic cell transplant units in general acute-

scientific article published on 13 February 2020

Evolving insights into the epidemiology and control of Clostridium difficile in hospitals

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Harnessing claims to improve detection of surgical site infections following hysterectomy and colorectal surgery.

scientific article published on 28 October 2013

Impact of an Automated Surveillance to Detect Surgical-Site Infections in Patients Undergoing Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty in Brazil

scientific article published on 13 April 2016

Impact of an environmental cleaning intervention on the presence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant enterococci on surfaces in intensive care unit rooms

scientific article published on July 2008

Impact of routine intensive care unit surveillance cultures and resultant barrier precautions on hospital-wide methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia

scientific article published on 14 September 2006

Implementing automated surveillance for tracking Clostridium difficile infection at multiple healthcare facilities

scientific article published on 19 January 2012

Improved surveillance for surgical site infections after orthopedic implantation procedures: extending applications for automated data

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Improving methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus surveillance and reporting in intensive care units

scientific article published on 27 December 2006

Improving patient safety through infection control: a new healthcare imperative

scientific article published on 01 October 2008

Improving the Assessment of Vancomycin‐Resistant Enterococci by Routine Screening

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Infection and Natural History of Emergency Department–Placed Central Venous Catheters

scientific article published on September 24, 2010

Infection prevention and control in health-care facilities in which hematopoietic cell transplant recipients are treated

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Infection prevention in the operating room anesthesia work area

scientific article published on 11 December 2018

Intrapartum antibiotics and neonatal invasive infections caused by organisms other than group B streptococcus

scientific article published on 01 May 2003

Introduction to "A Compendium of Strategies To Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2014 updates"

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Introduction to "A compendium of strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections in acute care hospitals: 2014 updates"

scientific article published in September 2014

Investigating Transfusion-Related Sepsis using Culture-Independent Metagenomic Sequencing

scientific article published on 29 September 2019

Lack of Comprehensive Outbreak Detection in Hospitals

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Maintaining the momentum of change: the role of the 2014 updates to the compendium in preventing healthcare-associated infections

scientific article published in May 2014

Maintaining the momentum of change: the role of the 2014 updates to the compendium in preventing healthcare-associated infections.

scientific article published on September 2014

Management of healthcare personnel living with hepatitis B, hepatitis C, or human immunodeficiency virus in US healthcare institutions

scientific article published on 14 October 2020

Multicenter study of Clostridium difficile infection rates from 2000 to 2006

scientific article published on October 2010

Multicenter study of surveillance for hospital-onset Clostridium difficile infection by the use of ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes

scientific article published on March 2010

Multicenter study of the impact of community-onset Clostridium difficile infection on surveillance for C. difficile infection

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Objective surveillance definitions for ventilator-associated pneumonia

scientific article published in December 2012

Oral vancomycin prophylaxis during systemic antibiotic exposure to prevent Clostridiodes difficile infection relapses

scientific article published on 29 April 2019

Pharmacy data for tuberculosis surveillance and assessment of patient management

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Postexposure prophylaxis against varicella-zoster virus infection among recipients of hematopoietic stem cell transplant: unresolved issues

scientific article published in July 2004

Predictive value of clinical diagnostic codes for the CDC case definition of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID): implications for surveillance

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Preventing catheter-associated bloodstream infections: a survey of policies for insertion and care of central venous catheters from hospitals in the prevention epicenter program

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Preventing the influx of vancomycin-resistant enterococci into health care institutions, by use of a simple validated prediction rule

scientific article published on 8 September 2004

Proposed checklist of hospital interventions to decrease the incidence of healthcare-associated Clostridium difficile infection

scientific article published in November 2009

Prospective Creation and Validation of the PREVENTT (Prediction and Enaction of Prevention Treatments Trigger) Scale for Surgical Site Infections (SSIs) in Patients With Diverticulitis

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Public reporting of health care-associated surveillance data: recommendations from the healthcare infection control practices advisory committee.

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Ranking Hospitals Based on Colon Surgery and Abdominal Hysterectomy Surgical Site Infection Outcomes: Impact of Limiting Surveillance to the Operative Hospital

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Reducing vancomycin use utilizing a computer guideline: results of a randomized controlled trial

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Reporting Surgical Site Infections Following Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty: Impact of Limiting Surveillance to the Operative Hospital

scientific article published on August 2, 2013

Risk factors for invasive fungal disease in heart transplant recipients.

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SHEA neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) white paper series: Practical approaches to Clostridioides difficile prevention

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Safe living after hematopoietic cell transplantation

scientific article published on 01 October 2009

Simplified surveillance for nosocomial bloodstream infections

scientific article published on 01 September 1998

Statistical detection of geographic clusters of resistant Escherichia coli in a regional network with WHONET and SaTScan

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Strategies to prevent Clostridium difficile infections in acute care hospitals: 2014 Update

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Strategies to prevent Clostridium difficile infections in acute care hospitals: 2014 update

scientific article published on 01 September 2014

Strategies to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections in acute care hospitals

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Strategies to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections in acute care hospitals: 2014 update

scientific article published on 01 May 2014

Strategies to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections in acute care hospitals: 2014 update.

scientific article published on September 2014

Strategies to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections in acute care hospitals

scientific article published on 01 October 2008

Strategies to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections in acute care hospitals: 2014 update

scientific article published on September 2014

Strategies to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections in acute care hospitals: 2014 update

scientific article published on 01 July 2014

Strategies to prevent clostridium difficile infections in acute care hospitals

scientific article published on 01 October 2008

Strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections through hand hygiene

scientific article published on September 2014

Strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections through hand hygiene

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Strategies to prevent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus transmission and infection in acute care hospitals: 2014 update

scientific article published on July 2014

Strategies to prevent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus transmission and infection in acute care hospitals: 2014 update.

scientific article published on September 2014

Strategies to prevent surgical site infections in acute care hospitals

scientific article published on 01 October 2008

Strategies to prevent surgical site infections in acute care hospitals: 2014 update

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Strategies to prevent surgical site infections in acute care hospitals: 2014 update

scientific article published on 01 September 2014

Strategies to prevent transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in acute care hospitals

scientific article published on 01 October 2008

Strategies to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia in acute care hospitals

scientific article published on 01 October 2008

Strategies to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia in acute care hospitals: 2014 update

scientific article published in August 2014

Strategies to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia in acute care hospitals: 2014 update

scientific article published on 01 September 2014

Supplementary table: epidemiology of neonatal infections: experience during and after hospitalization

scientific article published in March 2003

Supplementing tuberculosis surveillance with automated data from health maintenance organizations

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Surgical Site Infections: Volume-Outcome Relationship and Year-to-Year Stability of Performance Rankings.

scientific article published on 11 August 2016

Surgical site infection surveillance following ambulatory surgery

scientific article published on February 2015

Surveillance for surgical site infections: the uses of antibiotic exposure

scientific article published on November 1994

The Ebola transmission paradox

scientific article published on 11 June 2015

The evolving landscape of healthcare-associated infections: recent advances in prevention and a road map for research.

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The impact of ICD-9-CM code rank order on the estimated prevalence of Clostridium difficile infections

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Treatment of Immunocompromised COVID-19 patients with Convalescent Plasma

scientific article published on 29 September 2020

Universal glove and gown use and acquisition of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the ICU: a randomized trial

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Use of Antibiotic Exposure to Detect Postoperative Infections

scientific article published on 01 May 1998

Use of Medicare claims to rank hospitals by surgical site infection risk following coronary artery bypass graft surgery.

scientific article published on August 2011

Use of Medicare diagnosis and procedure codes to improve detection of surgical site infections following hip arthroplasty, knee arthroplasty, and vascular surgery.

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Using automated pharmacy records to assess the management of tuberculosis

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Variability of contact precaution policies in US emergency departments

scientific article published on 3 February 2014

Varying rates of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea at prevention epicenter hospitals

scientific article published in August 2005

Which Comorbid Conditions Should We Be Analyzing as Risk Factors for Healthcare-Associated Infections?

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