A survey of infection control strategies for carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in Department of Veterans' Affairs facilities

Swetha Ramanathan; Katie J. Suda; Margaret A. Fitzpatrick; Marylou Guihan; Cassie Cunningham Goedken; Nasia Safdar; Martin Evans; Makoto Jones; Christopher D. Pfeiffer; Eli N. Perencevich; Michael Rubin; Charlesnika T. Evans

doi:10.1017/ice.2020.328

A survey of infection control strategies for carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in Department of Veterans' Affairs facilities

Swetha Ramanathan^*, Katie J. Suda, Margaret A. Fitzpatrick, Marylou Guihan, Cassie Cunningham Goedken, Nasia Safdar, Martin Evans, Makoto Jones, Christopher D. Pfeiffer, Eli N. Perencevich, Michael Rubin, Charlesnika T. Evans

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A survey of Veterans' Affairs Medical Centers on control of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) and carbapenem-producing CRE (CP-CRE) demonstrated that most facilities use VA guidelines but few screen for CRE/CP-CRE colonization regularly or regularly communicate CRE/CP-CRE status at patient transfer. Most respondents were knowledgeable about CRE guidelines but cited lack of adequate resources.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	939-942
Number of pages	4
Journal	Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
Volume	43
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.328
State	Published - Jul 22 2022

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Financial support. This work was supported by the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, Veterans’ Health Administration, Office of Research and Development, Health Services Research and Development Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (grant no. QUE 15-269).

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Microbiology (medical)
Infectious Diseases
Epidemiology

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Ramanathan, S., Suda, K. J., Fitzpatrick, M. A., Guihan, M., Goedken, C. C., Safdar, N., Evans, M., Jones, M., Pfeiffer, C. D., Perencevich, E. N., Rubin, M., & Evans, C. T. (2022). A survey of infection control strategies for carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in Department of Veterans' Affairs facilities. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 43(7), 939-942. https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.328

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