Analysis of intra-hospital transfers and hospital-onset Clostridium difficile infection.

M McHaney-Lindstrom, C Hebert, J Flaherty, J E Mangino, S Moffatt-Bruce, E Dowling Root

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Article in The Journal of hospital infection, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

Describing the monthly variability of hospital-onsetInfection control and hospital epidemiology · 2024
Article
The impact of atypical intrahospital transfers on patient outcomes: a mixed methods study.Scientific reports · 2023
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Detection of Patients at Risk of Multidrug-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae Infection Using Graph Neural Networks: A Retrospective Study.Health data science · 2023
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Effects of patient-level risk factors, departmental allocation and seasonality on intrahospital patient transfer patterns: network analysis applied on a Norwegian single-centre data set.BMJ open · 2022
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Association between intrahospital transfer and hospital-acquired infection in the elderly: a retrospective case-control study in a UK hospital network.BMJ quality & safety · 2021
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Repurposing Geographic Information Systems for Routine Hospital Infection Control.Advances in health care management · 2019
Article

4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

M McHaney-LindstromDepartment of Geography, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA. Electronic address: Lindstrom.42@osu.edu.

C HebertDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.

J FlahertyDepartment of Clinical Epidemiology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.

J E ManginoDepartment of Clinical Epidemiology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.

S Moffatt-BruceDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.

E Dowling RootDepartment of Geography, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.

Funding

The OSU Clinical and Translational Research Informatics Training Program (CTRIP)T15LM011270 · NLM · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI COOMBES, KEVIN ROBERT, JANIES, DANIEL A. · 2012 to 2016

$2.2M

AHRQ HHS P30 HS024379NLM NIH HHS T15 LM011270

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Clostridioides difficileClostridium InfectionsCross InfectionEnvironmental ExposureHumansPatient Transfer

Identifiers

PMID30172746

DOI10.1016/j.jhin.2018.08.016

PMCPMC7321831

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