Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections Among Trauma Patients: Poor Quality of Care or Marker of Effective Rescue?

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Author(s): Husayn Ladhani, ; Esther Tseng, MetroHealth Medical Center; Jeffrey Claridge, MetroHealth Medical Center; Christopher Towe, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center; Vanessa Ho, MetroHealth Medical Center

Eligible for the Resident Award

Comprehensive improvement of infection prevention practices in Ethiopia: Further refining the Lifebox Clean Cut program

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Author(s): Nichole Starr, University of California, San Francisco; Assefa Tesfaye, St. Peter’s Specialized Hospital; Natnael Gebeyehu, St. Peter’s Specialized Hospital; Jared Forrester, Stanford University; Thomas Weiser, Stanford University; Tihitina Negussie, Addis Ababa University

Eligible for the Resident Award and New Member Award

Concomitant HIV/AIDS Infection Worsens Clinical Outcomes in Patients with Acute Diverticulitis

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Author(s): Tiago Finco, Riverside University Health System; Bishoy Zakhary, Riverside University Health System; Xiaofei Zhang, Riverside University Health System; Megan Brenner, Riverside University Health System; Raul Coimbra, Riverside University Health System

Eligible for the Resident Award and Sawyer Award

Cost-Effective Methods of Optimizing Antibiotic Stewardship in Pediatric Non-Complicated Appendicitis

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Author(s): Angela Kao, ; Trudy Marks, Levine Children’s Hospital; Sean Maloney, Carolinas Medical Center; Tanushree Prasad, Carolinas Medical Center; Brant Todd Heniford, Carolinas Medical Center; Graham Cosper, Levine Children’s Hospital

Eligible for the Resident Award and New Member Award

Differential long term survival following decortication for empyema and non-infectious etiologies.

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Author(s): Christopher Towe, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center; Sudershan Srinivasan, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center; Vanessa Ho, MetroHealth Medical Center; Stephanie G. Worrell, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center; Malavika Kesavan, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center; Katherine Wu, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center; Yaron Perry, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center; Philip Linden, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

Direct peritoneal resuscitation in trauma patients results in similar rate of intra-abdominal infectious complications

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Author(s): JACOB EDWARDS, The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University; Marissa Bare-Burchette, The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University; Nathaniel Poulin, The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University; William Irish, The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University; Eric A Toschlog, The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University

Eligible for the Resident Award

Does intra-wound vancomycin application during spinal surgery increase rates of surgical wound infection and disruption?

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Author(s): Victor R. Vakayil, ; James Glover, University Of Minnesota; Jeremiah Atkinson, University Of Minnesota; Ty Kanstrup, University Of Minnesota; James Harmon, University Of Minnesota; Catherine Statz, University Of Minnesota; Robert Bulander, University Of Minnesota

Eligible for the New Member Award

Economic Burden of Intensive Care-Acquired Bacteremia

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Author(s): Timothy Buchman, Emory University School of Medicine; Felix Chang, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center; Allan Kirk, Duke University Medical Center; Eric Elster, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Efficacy of Eravacycline in Non-Appendiceal Complicated Intra-Abdominal Infections: An Analysis of Two Phase 3 Trials

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Author(s): Vanessa Grant-DiFelice, Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals; Larry Tsai, Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals; Joseph Solomkin, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine; Sergey Izmailyan, Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals

Eligible for the New Member Award

Even Surgeons Can Use Quality Improvement Science To Eliminate CAUTIs From ICUs

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Author(s): Laura Kreiner, MetroHealth Medical Center; Jeffrey Claridge, MetroHealth Medical Center; Joseph Golob Jr M.D., MetroHealth Medical Center