@article{17d1058d702e40208bae561e323570cc,
title = "Are we measuring what we intend to measure? Implications for the management of healthcare-acquired infections",
keywords = "antibiotic agent, antibiotic therapy, comorbidity, drug choice, drug use, health care policy, health care quality, health care system, health program, healthcare associated infection, hospital information system, hospital patient, hospital service, human, incidence, length of stay, Letter, methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus, methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection, nonhuman, prescription, program development, quality control procedures, cross infection, disease transmission, drug utilization, hand disinfection, infection control, prevention and control, procedures, Cross Infection, Disease Transmission, Infectious, Drug Utilization, Hand Disinfection, Humans, Infection Control",
author = "M. Aldeyab and M. Scott and G. Conlon-Bingham and A. Nagar and D. Farren and M. Kearney",
note = "Export Date: 15 September 2018 CODEN: JHIND Correspondence Address: Aldeyab, M.; Pharmacy and Medicines Management Centre, Antrim Area Hospital, Northern Health and Social Care Trust, Beech House, United Kingdom; email: Mamoon.Aldeyab@northerntrust.hscni.net References: Aldeyab, M.A., McElnay, J.C., Scott, M.G., A modified method for measuring antibiotic use in healthcare settings: implications for antibiotic stewardship and benchmarking (2014) J Antimicrob Chemother, 69, pp. 1132-1141; Peterson, J.C., Paget, S.A., Lachs, M.S., The risk of comorbidity (2012) Ann Rheum Dis, 71, pp. 635-637; Conlon-Bingham, G., Aldeyab, M.A., Kearney, M.P., Scott, M.G., Baldwin, N., McElnay, J.C., Reduction in the incidence of hospital-acquired MRSA following the introduction of a chlorine dioxide 275ppm based disinfecting agent in a district general hospital (2015) Eur J Hosp Pharm; Wagner, A.K., Soumerai, S.B., Zhang, F., Ross-Degnan, D., Segmented regression analysis of interrupted time series studies in medication use research (2002) J Clin Pharm Ther, 27, pp. 299-309; Jarlier, V., Trystram, D., Brun-Buisson, C., Curbing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in 38 French hospitals through a 15-year institutional control program (2010) Arch Intern Med, 170, pp. 552-559",
year = "2015",
month = nov,
day = "9",
doi = "10.1016/j.jhin.2015.10.016",
language = "English",
volume = "92",
pages = "206--208",
journal = "Journal of Hospital Infection",
issn = "0195-6701",
publisher = "Elsevier",
number = "2",
}