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- Title
Molecular Diagnostics and Active Screening for Health Care-Associated Infections: Stepping-Up the Game.
- Authors
Dolinger, David L.; Jacobs, Alice A.
- Abstract
Health care-associated infections (HAI) place a significant burden up the health care system. Studies have shown that routine screening of patients prior to or at the point of admission along with appropriate control strategies can significantly reduce HAI rates. The solution requires clinical laboratories to provide rapid, accurate, and precise results for analytes that comprise a screening program. It is through a concerted and collaborative effort between the clinical laboratories, the hospital infectious disease control officers, and the in vitro diagnostics manufacturers that significant downturns in HAI rates can be achieved.
- Subjects
CROSS infection prevention; MEDICAL screening; BACTERIAL toxins; CARRIER state (Communicable diseases); CLOSTRIDIOIDES difficile; PREVENTION of communicable diseases; CROSS infection; DIAGNOSTIC reagents &; test kits; HOSPITAL admission &; discharge; MICROBIOLOGICAL techniques; MOLECULAR diagnosis; PATIENTS; ENTEROCOCCAL infections; VANCOMYCIN resistance; HEALTH insurance reimbursement; METHICILLIN-resistant staphylococcus aureus
- Publication
Laboratory Medicine, 2011, Vol 42, Issue 5, p267
- ISSN
0007-5027
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1309/LMH144ZOETKVQCJU