A Case-control Study to Detect Modifiable Risk Factors for Colonization with Vancomycin-resistant Enterococci

Overview

Journal Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Specialties Health Services
Infectious Diseases
Nursing
Public Health

Date 1999 Dec 2

PMID 10580629

Citations 7

Authors

M Loeb

S Salama

G Capretta

J Olde

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Abstract

A case-control study was conducted to determine the modifiable risk factors associated with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) colonization during a hospital outbreak. Cephalosporin use was identified as the only independent risk factor (odds ratio, 13.8; 95% confidence interval, 2.5-76.3; P = .01). Nursing work-load intensity was not associated with VRE colonization in this study.

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