Estimating the effectiveness of isolation and decolonization measures in reducing transmission of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus in hospital general wards

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 177, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1306-1313

  Worby, Colin J ^b   Jeyaratnam, Dakshika ^b   Robotham, Julie V ^b   Kypraios, Theodore ^b   O'Neill, Philip D ^a   De Angelis, Daniela ^b   French, Gary ^b   Cooper, Ben S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; data augmentation; infection control; Markov chain Monte Carlo; methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; patient isolation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DECOLONIZATION; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ESTIMATION METHOD; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTICENTER STUDY; NONHUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PREVALENCE; UNITED KINGDOM; WARD;

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; DATA AUGMENTATION; INFECTION CONTROL; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PATIENT ISOLATION;

ALGORITHMS; CROSS INFECTION; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MASS SCREENING; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PATIENT ISOLATION; PATIENTS' ROOMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

ENGLAND; LONDON [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84878546588     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kws380     Document Type: Article

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