Can rapid integrated polymerase chain reaction-based diagnostics for gastrointestinal pathogens improve routine hospital infection control practice? A diagnostic study

Health Technology Assessment

Volumn 18, Issue 53, 2014, Pages 1-167

  Pankhurst, Louise ^a,b   Macfarlane Smith, Louissa ^c   Buchanan, James ^d   Anson, Luke ^a,b   Davies, Kerrie ^c,e   O'Connor, Lily ^b,f   Ashwin, Helen ^e   Pike, Graham ^f   Dingle, Kate E ^a,b   Peto, Timothy E A ^a,b,f   Wordsworth, Sarah ^d   Walker, A Sarah ^a,b   Wilcox, Mark H ^c,e   Crook, Derrick W ^a,b,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NIHR OXFORD BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^f OXFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ADENOVIRUS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER ENTERITIS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIARRHEA; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FECES ANALYSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTIOUS DIARRHEA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NOROVIRUS; NOROVIRUS INFECTION; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROTAVIRUS; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; STAFF TRAINING; STANDARD; STANDARDIZATION; TURNAROUND TIME; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; WORKFLOW; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS INFECTION; ENGLAND; FECES; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PROCEDURES; TIME FACTOR; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

CAMPYLOBACTER; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CROSS INFECTION; DIARRHEA; ENGLAND; FECES; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INFECTION CONTROL; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; NOROVIRUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SALMONELLA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATE MEDICINE; TIME FACTORS; WORKFLOW;

EID: 84907368343     PISSN: 13665278     EISSN: 20464924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3310/hta18530     Document Type: Article

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