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Moore L, Arbogast J, Robbins G, DiGiorgio M, Parker A
Am J Infect Control . 2024 Sep; 52(12):1371-1376. PMID: 39241916
Background: High hand hygiene (HH) workload is a commonly cited barrier to optimal HH performance. The objective of this study was to assess trends of HH workload as defined by...
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Buckner E, Buckingham-Meyer K, Miller L, Parker A, Jones C, Goeres D
J Microbiol Methods . 2024 May; 223:106960. PMID: 38788980
The CDC Biofilm Reactor method is the standard biofilm growth protocol for the validation of US Environmental Protection Agency biofilm label claims. However, no studies have determined the effect of...
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Haas B, James S, Parker A, Gagnon M, Goulet N, Labrie P
Biofilm . 2023 Nov; 6:100163. PMID: 37941805
Biofilm has been implicated in multi-drug resistant organism outbreaks following endoscopic procedures. Automated Endoscope Reprocessors (AER) are devices validated to clean and disinfect endoscopes per applicable standards. The ISO 15883...
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Parker A, Arbogast J
Stat Methods Med Res . 2023 Nov; 32(12):2347-2364. PMID: 37915238
Sample size formulas are provided to determine how many events and how many patient care units are needed to estimate the sensitivity of a monitoring system. The monitoring systems we...
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Starrett W, Arbogast J, Parker A, Wagner P, Mahrer S, Christian V, et al.
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol . 2023 Aug; 45(2):207-214. PMID: 37649167
Objective: To measure the impact of an automated hand hygiene monitoring system (AHHMS) and an intervention program of complementary strategies on hand hygiene (HH) performance in both acute-care and long-term...
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Ryder M, deLancey-Pulcini E, Parker A, James G
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol . 2023 Apr; 44(11):1760-1768. PMID: 37088696
Objective: Although needleless connectors (NCs) are widely used in clinical practice, they carry significant risk of bloodstream infection (BSI). In this study, we quantified differences in bacterial transfer and biofilm...
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Sharp J, Parker A, Hamilton M
J Microbiol Methods . 2023 Apr; 208:106723. PMID: 37031895
Aims: Microbial samples are often serially diluted to estimate the number of microbes in a sample, whether as colony-forming units of bacteria or algae, plaque forming units of viruses, or...
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Parker A, Dimitrov A
Entropy (Basel) . 2022 Sep; 24(9). PMID: 36141117
In this paper, we investigate the bifurcations of solutions to a class of degenerate constrained optimization problems. This study was motivated by the Information Bottleneck and Information Distortion problems, which...
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Arbogast J, Moore L, DiGiorgio M, Robbins G, Clark T, Thompson M, et al.
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol . 2022 Aug; 44(4):638-642. PMID: 35993573
Objective: To determine how engagement of the hospital and/or vendor with performance improvement strategies combined with an automated hand hygiene monitoring system (AHHMS) influence hand hygiene (HH) performance rates. Design:...
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Parker A, Miller L, Adams J, Pettigrew C, Buckingham-Meyer K, Summers J, et al.
J Appl Microbiol . 2022 Aug; 133(6):3413-3423. PMID: 35973686
Aim: To assess removal versus kill efficacies of antimicrobial treatments against thick biofilms with statistical confidence. Methods And Results: A photo-activated chlorine dioxide treatment (Photo ClO ) was tested in...