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List of works by Westyn Branch-Elliman

111. Increasing Duration of Surgical Prophylaxis Increases Antimicrobial-Associated Adverse Events but Does Not Decrease Surgical Site Infections: An Opportunity for Stewardship

163. Development of an Electronic Flagging Tool for Identifying Cardiac Device Infections: Insights from the VA CART Program

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2126. Comparative Effectiveness of Infection Prevention Interventions for Reducing Procedure-Related Cardiac Device Infections: Insights from the VA CART Program

858. Preoperative “Dirty” Urinalysis Leads to Antibiotic Use Without Benefit

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A Clinical History of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Is a Poor Predictor of Preoperative Colonization Status and Postoperative Infections ⬇️

scientific article published on September 19, 2012

A Roadmap for Reducing Cardiac Device Infections: a Review of Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, and Actionable Risk Factors to Guide the Development of an Infection Prevention Program for the Electrophysiology Laboratory.

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A retrospective analysis of adverse events among patients receiving daptomycin versus vancomycin during outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy

scientific article published on 12 June 2018

Active identification of patients who are methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonized is not associated with longer duration of vancomycin therapy.

scientific article published on 16 June 2017

Breaking the Chain of Infection in Older Adults: A Review of Risk Factors and Strategies for Preventing Device-Related Infections.

scientific article published in December 2017

Bringing New Meaning to the Term "Adaptive Trial": Challenges of Conducting Clinical Research During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic and Implications for Implementation Science

scientific article published on 19 October 2020

Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratories: A Potential Target for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Quality Improvement?

scientific article published on 20 June 2016

Combination Antimicrobial Prophylaxis for Hysterectomy… Harm without the Benefit?

scientific article published on 31 January 2018

Correlation of Hand Hygiene Compliance Measured by Direct Observation with Estimates Obtained from Product Usage

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Determining the Ideal Strategy for Ventilator-associated Pneumonia Prevention. Cost-Benefit Analysis

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Development and validation of a simple and easy-to-employ electronic algorithm for identifying clinical methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection.

scientific article published on 17 April 2014

Direct feedback with the ATP luminometer as a process improvement tool for terminal cleaning of patient rooms

scientific article published in 2014

Estimated nursing workload for the implementation of ventilator bundles.

scientific article published on 21 February 2013

Facility type and surgical specialty are associated with suboptimal surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis practice patterns: a multi-center, retrospective cohort study

scientific article published on 06 March 2019

Health and economic burden of post-partum Staphylococcus aureus breast abscess

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Hepatitis C transmission due to contamination of multidose medication vials: summary of an outbreak and a call to action

scientific article published on 25 May 2012

Identification of a norovirus outbreak on a hematopoietic stem cell transplant unit and development and implementation of a novel infection prevention algorithm for controlling transmission

scientific article published on 24 February 2020

Implementation of Infection Prevention and Antimicrobial Stewardship in Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratories: Results from the SHEA Research Network

scientific article published on 20 January 2017

Implementation of documented and written informed consent for clinical trials of communicable diseases: Lessons learned, barriers, solutions, future directions identified during the conduct of a COVID-19 clinical trial

scientific article published on 26 June 2021

Infections in Older Adults: A Case-Based Discussion Series Emphasizing Antibiotic Stewardship

scientific article published on 21 September 2018

Mutation Master: profiles of substitutions in hepatitis C virus RNA of the core, alternate reading frame, and NS2 coding regions.

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Natural Language Processing for Real-Time Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection Surveillance: Results of a Pilot Implementation Trial.

scientific article published on 29 May 2015

Oseltamivir prophylaxis for the prevention of influenza in healthy healthcare workers: Tolerability and compliance challenges

scientific article published on 20 August 2019

Prolonged antimicrobial prophylaxis following cardiac device procedures increases preventable harm: insights from the VA CART program

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Rates of recurrent variceal bleeding are low with modern esophageal banding strategies: a retrospective cohort study.

scientific article published on 11 April 2015

Real-world challenges in infection prevention: Differential implementation between stable and unstable patients may influence clinical effectiveness of interventions

scientific article published on 11 April 2019

Reconsidering ‘minimal risk’ to expand the repertoire of trials with waiver of informed consent for research

scientific article published on 14 September 2021

Risk factors for Staphylococcus aureus postpartum breast abscess.

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Risk of surgical site infection, acute kidney injury, and Clostridium difficile infection following antibiotic prophylaxis with vancomycin plus a beta-lactam versus either drug alone: A national propensity-score-adjusted retrospective cohort study.

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The next ‘pandemic playbook’ needs to prioritize the needs of children—and a clear roadmap for opening schools

scientific article published in 2023

Using clinical variables to guide surgical site infection detection: a novel surveillance strategy

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Using the Pillars of Infection Prevention to Build an Effective Program for Reducing the Transmission of Emerging and Reemerging Infections.

scientific article published on September 2015

When Sterile Processing Goes Down: An Economic Analysis of Alternative Strategies for Supporting the Service.

scientific article published on 19 June 2017

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