Sentences with phrase «hospital epidemiologist»
«I would not assume that this is a widespread phenomenon, based on these results,» says John Boyce, a hospital epidemiologist at Miriam Hospital and Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
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In particular, we were interested in inflammatory bowel disease which has previously been associated with higher risk of acquiring this infection and obesity, which has never been examined,» explained corresponding author Nahid Bhadelia, MD, MALD, associate hospital epidemiologist at BMC and assistant professor of medicine at BUSM.
«There has been concern in the healthcare community about the impact of routine, daily chlorhexidine (CHG) bathing on fostering the spread of bacteria resistant to this agent,» said David Warren, MD, MPH, lead author of the study and Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Washington University School of Medicine and Hospital Epidemiologist at Barnes - Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.
Neha Nanda, MD, is a hospital epidemiologist and medical director of infection prevention and antimicrobial stewardship at Keck Medicine of USC.
Linkin is also an infectious disease specialist and the hospital epidemiologist at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center, and an assistant professor in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
«This guidance details the role of the healthcare epidemiologist as an expert and leader supporting hospitals in preparing for, stopping, and recovering from infectious diseases crises,» said David Banach, MD, co-chair of the writing panel and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Connecticut and Hospital Epidemiologist at UConn Health.
«Hospital administrators, policymakers, surgeons and hospital epidemiologists can use these data to make a business case for quality improvement efforts focused on SSIs,» authors noted.
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It will now be easier for hospitals, physicians, midwives, and epidemiologists to sort out the stats and outcomes by place of birth, intended, and actual.
I'm a certified nurse - midwife, a past - president of the American College of Nurse - Midwives, and a CDC - trained epidemiologist who has published three major studies of out - of - hospital births in this country.
SOURCES: Carrie K. Shapiro - Mendoza, Ph.D., epidemiologist, division of reproductive health, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta; Thomas G. DeWitt, M.D., director, division of general and community pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center; Cheryl Cipriani, M.D., associate professor, pediatrics, Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, and director, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Scott & White, Temple, Texas; February 2009 Pediatrics
Epidemiologists usually conduct personal surveys or track hospital emergency room visits and calls to poison - control centers.
Epidemiologists are shaken by MERS's apparent affinity for spreading in hospitals.
«New document guides hospitals in responding to infectious disease outbreaks: Healthcare epidemiologists play key role in emergency preparedness and response.»
That summer, epidemiologists discovered hospital - bred strains of the gut bacterium enterococcus harboring a gene that made them impervious to vancomycin.
«There is a clear and alarming upswing throughout this country of antibiotic resistant Enterobacteriaceae infections in kids and teens,» said lead author Sharon B. Meropol, MD, PhD, a pediatrician and epidemiologist at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland.
«Obstetricians and midwives should consider pregnancies for immigrants from these regions as high risk,» said Dr. Marcelo Urquia, lead author and an epidemiologist at the Centre for Research on Inner City Health of St. Michael's Hospital.
«Homicide is a leading cause of death in U.S. adolescents and young adults, especially among African Americans, but the factors influencing violence are complex,» said corresponding author Alison J. Culyba, M.D., M.P.H., an adolescent medicine specialist and epidemiologist at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).
Hersh, Andrew T. Pavia, M.D., also an infectious disease expert and professor of pediatrics at the University of Utah, Lauri A. Hicks, D.O., a medical epidemiologist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and University of California, San Francisco, medical student Daniel J. Shapiro, conducted the study using a public database with information on ambulatory care visits at physician offices and hospital - based outpatient and emergency departments nationwide.
According to Eva S. Schernhammer, MD, DrPH, currently Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Associate Epidemiologist, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, this study «is one of the largest prospective cohort studies worldwide with a high proportion of rotating night shift workers and long follow - up time.
[1] Dr Toral Gathani is a clinical epidemiologist in the Cancer Epidemiology Unit at the University of Oxford and also a consultant oncoplastic breast surgeon at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The stories of Father Carlos and Dr. N'goy, the District Medical Officer who had first identified the epidemic, the reports at the Bumba hospital, the evident fear of the pilots and the townspeople of Bumba and their desperate attempts to flee the town... the apparent virulence of this disease, the high mortality — put together with the poverty and poor organization that characterized Zaire and the potential for contagion in Kinshasa — added up to a picture that Joel Breman, a CDC senior epidemiologist, summarized as «potentially the most deadly epidemic of the century.»
But more than half the staph infections caught by hospital patients are now resistant to methicillin (up from 2 percent in 1974), and according to some epidemiologists, the deaths in Minnesota and North Dakota are just the tip of the iceberg.
Ahmed Lugalo, a veterinary epidemiologist affiliated with Sokoine University of Agriculture in Morogoro, Tanzania, follows up on dog bites and rabies cases recorded in logbooks from clinics and hospitals.
«We wanted to better understand how NSQIP could be used to drive quality improvement efforts in our hospital,» said lead study author Amber Trickey, MSc, PhD, a surgery epidemiologist and biostatistician at Inova Fairfax Hhospital,» said lead study author Amber Trickey, MSc, PhD, a surgery epidemiologist and biostatistician at Inova Fairfax HospitalHospital.
«Although individual physical and behavioral factors associated with asthma have been examined before, people are often exposed to multiple risk factors so it's important we understand the combined impact,» said Dr. Jayadeep Patra, lead author of the study and an epidemiologist at the Centre for Global Health Research of St. Michael's Hospital.
Researchers haven't conclusively proven that cognitive decline in middle age predicts Alzheimer's or other dementias, but on balance the evidence suggests that small changes in midlife mental function can become magnified later in life, says Francine Grodstein, Sc.D., an epidemiologist and associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, in Boston.
«Opioids are not as safe as people had hoped,» says the lead author of the study, Daniel H. Solomon, MD, a rheumatologist and epidemiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, in Boston.
Other UC Davis researchers collaborating on this study were Professor Andrea Fascetti, chief of the nutrition service at the William R. Pritchard Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital, and Professor Philip Kass, a veterinary epidemiologist.
Led by Dr. Christine Cole Johnson, an epidemiologist at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, the study involved researchers collecting dust samples from the carpets and floors of baby's rooms in 173 homes one month after a newborn arrived home.
«These findings point to potential public health effects associated with global climate change,» study leader Dr. Gregory Tasian, a pediatric urologist and epidemiologist at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, said in a hospital news Hospital of Philadelphia, said in a hospital news hospital news release.