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Detecting and adjusting for severe illness in inpatients using passively collected data
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Improving threat detection and quality surveillance: tools for infection management
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Summary of findings: We found that increases in severity of C. difficile diarrhoea, likely to due to the arrival of the hypervirulent 027 strain in the UK, could have been detected three years early using routine monitoring of neutrophil counts at diagnosis, compared with looking at patient ... READ MORE
Infection and mortality in patients with bronchoalveolar lavage/pleural fluid samples
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Nosocomial MRSA endemicity: addition or replacement (multi-centre, multi-cohort study)
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Summary of findings: Trends in the rates of serious bloodstream infections caused by antibiotic-sensitive microbes were similar between 1998-2007 across 14 hospitals in Europe, but rates of serious bloodstream infections caused by antibiotic-resistant microbes increased much more in hospitals in ... READ MORE