The Impact of Healthcare-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Infections on Post-Discharge Healthcare Costs and Utilization

Development and Validation of a Simple and Easy-to-Employ Electronic Algorithm for Identifying Clinical Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infection

(2014) Westyn Branch-Elliman et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Selecting an Appropriate Caliper Can Be Essential for Achieving Good Balance With Propensity Score Matching

(2013) Mark Lunt   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Excess Mortality and Long-Term Disability from Healthcare-Associated Staphylococcus aureus Infections: A Population-Based Matched Cohort Study

(2013) Chiu-Hsia Su et al.   PLoS One

Health Care–Associated Infections

(2013) Eyal Zimlichman et al.   JAMA Internal Medicine

Long-term survival and healthcare utilization outcomes attributable to sepsis and pneumonia

(2012) Andrew Dick et al.   BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH

Identification of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus within the Nation’s Veterans Affairs Medical Centers using natural language processing

(2012) Makoto Jones et al.   BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Healthcare-Associated Infection and Hospital Readmission

(2012) Carley B. Emerson et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Validity of ICD-9-CM Coding for Identifying Incident Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Infections: Is MRSA Infection Coded as a Chronic Disease?

(2011) Marin L. Schweizer et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

A combined comorbidity score predicted mortality in elderly patients better than existing scores

(2011) Joshua J. Gagne et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

An Introduction to Propensity Score Methods for Reducing the Effects of Confounding in Observational Studies

(2011) Peter C. Austin   MULTIVARIATE BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH

Veterans Affairs Initiative to Prevent Methicillin-ResistantStaphylococcus aureusInfections

(2011) Rajiv Jain et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infection and Hospitalization in High-Risk Patients in the Year following Detection

(2011) Susan S. Huang et al.   PLoS One

Estimating the Cost of Health Care–Associated Infections: Mind Your p’s and q’s

(2010) Nicholas Graves et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Excess Costs and Utilization Associated with Methicillin Resistance for Patients with Staphylococcus aureus Infection

(2010) Gregory A. Filice et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Association Between Implementation of a Medical Team Training Program and Surgical Mortality

(2010) Julia Neily et al.   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Sensitivity of Rapid Influenza Diagnostic Testing for Swine-Origin 2009 A (H1N1) Influenza Virus in Children

(2010) M. Hawkes et al.   PEDIATRICS

Optimal caliper widths for propensity-score matching when estimating differences in means and differences in proportions in observational studies

(2010) Peter C. Austin   PHARMACEUTICAL STATISTICS

“Never Events”: Not Every Hospital‐Acquired Infection Is Preventable

(2009) Jack Brown et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Rehospitalizations among Patients in the Medicare Fee-for-Service Program

(2009) Stephen F. Jencks et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Clinical and Financial Outcomes Due to Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Surgical Site Infection: A Multi-Center Matched Outcomes Study

(2009) Deverick J. Anderson et al.   PLoS One

CDC/NHSN surveillance definition of health care–associated infection and criteria for specific types of infections in the acute care setting

(2008) Teresa C. Horan et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INFECTION CONTROL

Antimicrobial-Resistant Pathogens Associated With Healthcare-Associated Infections: Annual Summary of Data Reported to the National Healthcare Safety Network at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2006–2007

(2008) Alicia I. Hidron et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Dual Use of VA and Non-VA Services Among Primary Care Patients with Depression

(2008) Chuan-Fen Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE