84 Surveillance: New Perspectives

Saturday, March 20, 2010: 2:00 PM-3:30 PM
Regency VI-VII (Hyatt Regency Atlanta)
Type: Oral
Moderators:
Eli Perencevich, MD and Priti Patel, MD, MPH
2:00 PM
686
A Preliminary Description of Adherence to Central Line Insertion Practices Reported through the National Healthcare Safety Network
Katherine Allen-Bridson, RN, BSN, CIC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Jonathan Edwards, MStat, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Katherine Ellingson, PhD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2:15 PM
687
Outpatient Dialysis Event Surveillance: A Report from the National Healthcare Safety Network, 2007-2008
Priti Patel, MD, MPH, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Alexander Kallen, MD, MPH, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Jonathan Edwards, MS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Teresa Horan, MPH, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2:30 PM
688
Healthcare-Associated Infection Rates and Device Utilization Ratios in Long-Term Acute Care Hospitals Reporting to the National Healthcare Safety Network
Carolyn V. Gould, MD, MSCR, CDC; Benjamin A. Kupronis, MPH, CDC; Kathy Allen-Bridson, RN, BSN, CIC, CDC; Kelly Peterson, BBA, CDC; Teresa Horan, MPH, CDC; Jonathan Edwards, MStat, CDC
2:45 PM
689
Seasonal Variation in the Incidences of Bacterial Infection among Hospitalized Patients: Summer Peaks in Gram-Negative Infections
Michael R. Eber, BSE, Resources for the Future; Michelle Shardell, PhD, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Marin L. Schweizer, PhD, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Ramanan Laxminarayan, PhD, MPH, Resources for the Future; Jessina C. McGregor, PhD, Oregon State University College of Pharmacy; Eli N. Perencevich, MD, University of Maryland School of Medicine
3:00 PM
690
Understanding inter-facility transmission of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): The role of traditional and molecular epidemiologic methods
Shu-Hua Wang, MD, MPH, The Ohio State University Medical Center; Yosef Khan, MBBS, MPH, The Ohio State University Medical Center; Rachel L. DeMita, M.D., The Ohio State University Medical Center; Lisa Hines, RN, CIC, The Ohio State University Medical Center; Ruchi Soni, BS, The Ohio State University Medical Center; Preeti Pancholi, PhD, The Ohio State University Medical Center; Kurt B. Stevenson, MD, MPH, The Ohio State University Medical Center
3:15 PM
691
Changing Epidemiology of Candidemia in Inpatient and Outpatient Populations: Preliminary Results of an Active, Population-Based Laboratory Surveillance in the United States- 2008-2009
Angela M. Ahlquist, MPH, Centers for Disease Control, & Atlanta Research and Education Foundation; Lee H. Harrison, MD, University of Pittsburgh; Monica M. Farley, MD, Emory University, & Atlanta VA Medical Center; Rosemary Hollick, MSc, Johns Hopkins University; Wendy Baughman, Atlanta VA Medical Center; Betsy Siegel, Emory University; Sandra Muhanuka, RN, MPH, Johns Hopkins University; Shawn R. Lockhart, PhD, Centers for Disease Control; Benjamin J. Park, MD, Centers for Disease Control; Tom Chiller, MD, MPHTM, Centers for Disease Control