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List of works by Michael B Edmond

A controlled trial of universal gloving versus contact precautions for preventing the transmission of multidrug-resistant organisms

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A multicenter study using positive deviance for improving hand hygiene compliance

scientific article published on 21 August 2013

A program for sustained improvement in preventing ventilator associated pneumonia in an intensive care setting ⬇️

scientific article published on September 29, 2012

A statewide survey of nosocomial infection surveillance in acute care hospitals

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Active surveillance cultures are not required to control MRSA infections in the critical care setting

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An examination of stewardship interventions by major category in an urban academic medical center.

scientific article published in April 2012

Antibiotic prevention of acute exacerbations of COPD.

scientific article published on July 2012

Antibiotic resistance in the community ⬇️

scientific article published on October 1, 2003

Antibiotics for abdominal sepsis

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Are gym surfaces reservoirs for Staphylococcus aureus? A point prevalence survey.

scientific article published on 22 May 2012

Beta-lactam resistance mechanisms in Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains causing bloodstream infections: comparative results between Brazilian and American isolates

scientific article published on 28 March 2012

Beyond the IRB: examining common but rarely explored ethical issues in psychosocial research

scientific article published on July 2007

Bloodstream infections with metallo-beta-lactamase-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa: epidemiology, microbiology, and clinical outcomes.

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Case records of the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University Clinicopathologic Conference. A 27-year-old man with hematuria

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Case records of the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University Clinicopathologic Conference. A 31-year-old man with a multilobar pulmonary process

scientific article published in November 1996

Case records of the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, clinicopathologic conference. Case presentation. A 38-year-old woman with new-onset ascites

scientific article published in March 1997

Catheter related bloodstream infection (CR-BSI) in ICU patients: making the decision to remove or not to remove the central venous catheter

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Central line-associated bloodstream infection surveillance outside the intensive care unit: a multicenter survey

scientific article published on 24 July 2012

Central venous catheter colonization by linezolid-resistant, vancomycin-susceptible Enterococcus faecalis

scientific article published on May 2006

Clinical and economic impact of procalcitonin to shorten antimicrobial therapy in septic patients with proven bacterial infection in an intensive care setting

scientific article published on 25 May 2013

Clinical and public health implications of macrolide-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae.

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Community-acquired methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a women's collegiate basketball team.

scientific article published in October 2008

Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): new issues for infection control

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Comparison of severity of illness scoring systems for patients with nosocomial bloodstream infection due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa

scientific article published on 17 August 2006

Contact precautions in the intensive care unit setting: 12 years of surveillance

scientific article published on 10 October 2012

Continued non-compliance with the American College of Surgeons recommendations to decrease infectious exposure in the operating room: why?

scientific article published on 3 May 2013

Controlled trial measuring the effect of a feedback intervention on hand hygiene compliance in a step-down unit

scientific article published in August 2008

Correlation between mass and volume of collected blood with positivity of blood cultures.

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Cost-Effectiveness of Perirectal Surveillance Cultures for Controlling Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus

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Current trends in the epidemiology of nosocomial bloodstream infections in patients with hematological malignancies and solid neoplasms in hospitals in the United States

scientific article published on 14 April 2003

Decreasing mortality in severe sepsis and septic shock patients by implementing a sepsis bundle in a hospital setting

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Descriptive Epidemiology of Safety Events at an Academic Medical Center

scientific article published on 04 January 2020

Diversity of antimicrobial use and resistance in 42 hospitals in the United States.

scientific article published on July 2008

Ebola virus disease and the need for new personal protective equipment.

scientific article published on December 2014

Effect of bedside needle disposal units on needle recapping frequency and needlestick injury

scientific article published in March 1988

Effect of contact precautions on wait time from emergency room disposition to inpatient admission

scientific article published in March 2011

Endocarditis due to vancomycin-resistant enterococci: case report and review of the literature.

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Epidemiology and Microbiologic Characterization of Nosocomial Candidemia from a Brazilian National Surveillance Program

scientific article published on 25 January 2016

Epidemiology of bacteriuria caused by vancomycin-resistant enterococci--a retrospective study.

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Epidemiology of bloodstream infections in patients receiving long-term total parenteral nutrition

scientific article published in January 2007

Ethical Considerations in the Use of Subliminal Stimulation to Improve Handwashing Compliance: Scientific Utility versus Autonomy of the Individual

scientific article published in 1993

Failure of Risk-Adjustment by Test Method for C. difficile Laboratory-Identified Event Reporting

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Getting to zero: is it safe?

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Hand Hygiene: State-of-the-Art Review With Emphasis on New Technologies and Mechanisms of Surveillance ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 2012

Hand hygiene compliance in the critical care setting: a comparative study of 2 different alcohol handrub formulations

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Hospital and community fluoroquinolone use and resistance in Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli in 17 US hospitals

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Hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile-associated disease in the intensive care unit setting: epidemiology, clinical course and outcome

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Images in clinical medicine. Seasonal hemolysis due to cold-agglutinin syndrome

scientific article published on 01 February 1996

Impact of 2 different levels of performance feedback on compliance with infection control process measures in 2 intensive care units

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Impact of 2018 Changes in National Healthcare Safety Network Surveillance for Clostridium difficile Laboratory-Identified Event Reporting

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Impact of a program to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infection in the zero tolerance era.

scientific article published on 12 March 2010

Impact of appropriate antimicrobial therapy for patients with severe sepsis and septic shock--a quality improvement study

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Implementation of an antibiotic prophylaxis protocol in an intensive care unit

scientific article published on 01 February 2012

Inducible amp C β-lactamase producing gram-negative bacilli from blood stream infections: Frequency, antimicrobial susceptibility, and molecular epidemiology in a national surveillance program (SCOPE) ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 August 1997

Infection control: the case for horizontal rather than vertical interventional programs

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Infections associated with religious rituals ⬇️

scientific article published on June 18, 2013

Lessons from severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS): implications for infection control.

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Listening to SARS: lessons for infection control

scientific article published in October 2003

Look before you leap: active surveillance for multidrug-resistant organisms

scientific article published on 2 March 2007

Managing SARS amidst uncertainty

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Managing antibiotic resistance

scientific article published on 01 December 2000

Mandatory Flu Vaccine for Healthcare Workers: Not Worthwhile

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Mandatory public reporting in the USA: an example to follow?

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Measurement and feedback of infection control process measures in the intensive care unit: Impact on compliance

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Measuring hand hygiene compliance in a hematology-oncology unit: a comparative study of methodologies

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Measuring hand hygiene compliance rates at hospital entrances

scientific article published on 29 April 2015

Measuring rates of hand hygiene adherence in the intensive care setting: a comparative study of direct observation, product usage, and electronic counting devices

scientific article published in August 2010

National Surveillance of Nosocomial Blood Stream Infection Due to Candida albicans: Frequency of Occurrence and Antifungal Susceptibility in the SCOPE Program ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 1998

National surveillance of nosocomial blood stream infection due to species of Candida other than Candida albicans: frequency of occurrence and antifungal susceptibility in the SCOPE Program. SCOPE Participant Group. Surveillance and Control of Pathog

scientific article published in February 1998

Nosocomial bloodstream infections caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae: impact of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) production on clinical outcome in a hospital with high ESBL prevalence

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Nosocomial bloodstream infections due to Acinetobacter baumannii, Acinetobacter pittii and Acinetobacter nosocomialis in the United States

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Nosocomial bloodstream infections in Brazilian hospitals: analysis of 2,563 cases from a prospective nationwide surveillance study

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Nosocomial bloodstream infections in Brazilian pediatric patients: microbiology, epidemiology, and clinical features

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Nosocomial bloodstream infections in pediatric patients in United States hospitals: epidemiology, clinical features and susceptibilities

scientific article published on 01 August 2003

Nosocomial enterococcal blood stream infections in the SCOPE program: Antimicrobial resistance, species occurrence, molecular testing results, and laboratory testing accuracy ⬇️

scientific article published on October 1, 1997

Nosocomial streptococcal blood stream infections in the SCOPE Program: species occurrence and antimicrobial resistance. The SCOPE Hospital Study Group

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Oral care and bacteremia risk in mechanically ventilated adults.

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Outcomes of patients with alcohol use disorders experiencing healthcare-associated infections

scientific article published on 19 April 2011

Patient-to-patient transmission of hepatitis C virus.

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Positive Deviance: A New Tool for Infection Prevention and Patient Safety

scientific article published on 28 September 2013

Positive deviance: Using a nurse call system to evaluate hand hygiene practices

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Positive deviance: a new strategy for improving hand hygiene compliance

scientific article published in January 2010

Positive deviance: a program for sustained improvement in hand hygiene compliance

scientific article published in February 2011

Post-malaria neurological syndrome: a case report and review of the literature.

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Practices and an assessment of health care workers' perceptions of compliance with infection control knowledge of nosocomial infections

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Predicting hospital rates of fluoroquinolone-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa from fluoroquinolone use in US hospitals and their surrounding communities

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Predicting pass rates on the American Board of Internal Medicine certifying examination.

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Preparing for 2009 H1N1 Influenza

scientific article published in November 2009

Preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infection in the zero-tolerance era.

scientific article published on 25 June 2011

Preventing nosocomial infections from gastrointestinal endoscopy.

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Racial bias in using USMLE step 1 scores to grant internal medicine residency interviews

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Screening Inpatients for MRSA — Case Closed

scientific article published on 29 May 2013

Screening for MRSA: a flawed hospital infection control intervention

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Secular trends in the epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI): relationship with alcohol gel and antimicrobial usage in a hospital

scientific article published on 15 February 2013

Septic Shock — Evaluating Another Failed Treatment

scientific article published on 22 May 2012

Successful prevention of tracheostomy associated pneumonia in step-down units

scientific article published on 12 May 2011

Successful prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia in an intensive care setting

scientific article published on 25 June 2009

Successful use of alcohol sensor technology to monitor and report hand hygiene compliance ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 2010

Surgical site infection surveillance for neurosurgical procedures: a comparison of passive surveillance by surgeons to active surveillance by infection control professionals

scientific article published in April 2007

Susceptibility of coagulase-negative staphylococcal nosocomial bloodstream isolates to the chlorhexidine/silver sulfadiazine-impregnated central venous catheter

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Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome in Nosocomial Bloodstream Infections with Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Enterococcus Species: Comparison of Elderly and Nonelderly Patients

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Systemic inflammatory response syndrome in adult patients with nosocomial bloodstream infection due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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Systemic inflammatory response syndrome in adult patients with nosocomial bloodstream infection due to Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 6 August 2001

Systemic inflammatory response syndrome in adult patients with nosocomial bloodstream infections due to enterococci

scientific article published on 26 September 2006

Taylorized Medicine ⬇️

scientific article published on October 18, 2010

Team-based prevention of catheter-related infections

scientific article published in December 2006

The Epidemiology of Hemorrhage Related to Cardiothoracic Operations ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 January 1998

The Rising Tide: Skin and Soft Tissue Infections Due to Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 01 February 2009

The case of the cold thermometers.

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The effect of contact precautions on hand hygiene compliance

scientific article published on 23 December 2012

The effect of limiting antimicrobial therapy duration on antimicrobial resistance in the critical care setting

scientific article published on 4 November 2008

Time to blood culture positivity as a predictor of clinical outcome of Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection.

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Trial of universal gloving with emollient-impregnated gloves to promote skin health and prevent the transmission of multidrug-resistant organisms in a surgical intensive care unit

scientific article published in May 2010

Use of ethanol lock therapy to reduce the incidence of catheter-related bloodstream infections in home parenteral nutrition patients

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Vancomycin‐ResistantStaphylococcus aureus: Infection Control Considerations ⬇️

scientific article published on August 1, 1998

Watching them wash: description of a hand hygiene observation program

scientific article published in February 2010

Who is steering the ship? External influences on infection control programs

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