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Should Vascular Surgery Patients Be Screened Preoperatively for Methicillin‐Resistant Staphylococcus aureus?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page 000, Latest Articles. Background. Methicillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) can cause severe infection in patients who are undergoing vascular surgical operations. Testing all vascular surgery patients preoperatively for MRSA and attempting to decolonize those who have positive results may be a strategy to prevent MRSA infection. The economic value of such a strategy has not yet been determined. Methods. We developed a decision‐analytic computer simulation model to determine the economic value of using such a strategy before all v...
Source: Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Latest Issue - October 23, 2009 Category: Epidemiology Tags: article Original Article Source Type: journals

Should Vascular Surgery Patients Be Screened Preoperatively for Methicillin‐Resistant Staphylococcus aureus? • Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, Volume 30, Issue 12, Page 1158-1165, December 2009. Background. Methicillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) can cause severe infection in patients who are undergoing vascular surgical operations. Testing all vascular surgery patients preoperatively for MRSA and attempting to decolonize those who have positive results may be a strategy to prevent MRSA infection. The economic value of such a strategy has not yet been determined. Methods. We developed a decision‐analytic computer simulation model to determine the economic value of using such a strategy before...
Source: Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Latest Issue - November 4, 2009 Category: Epidemiology Tags: article Original Article Source Type: journals

Body Size, Recreational Physical Activity, and B-Cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Risk Among Women in the California Teachers StudyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Nutritional status and physical activity are known to alter immune function, which may be relevant to lymphomagenesis. The authors examined body size measurements and recreational physical activity in relation to risk of B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) in the prospective California Teachers Study. Between 1995 and 2007, 574 women were diagnosed with incident B-cell NHL among 121,216 eligible women aged 22–84 years at cohort entry. Multivariable-adjusted relative risks and 95% confidence intervals were estimated by fitting Cox proportional hazards models for all B-cell NHL combined and for the 3 most common subtypes...
Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - October 30, 2009 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Lu, Y., Prescott, J., Sullivan-Halley, J., Henderson, K. D., Ma, H., Chang, E. T., Clarke, C. A., Horn-Ross, P. L., Ursin, G., Bernstein, L. Tags: RESEARCH-ARTICLE Source Type: journals

Genetic Variations in Xenobiotic Metabolic Pathway Genes, Personal Hair Dye Use, and Risk of Non-Hodgkin LymphomaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
From 1996 to 2000, the authors conducted a population-based case-control study among Connecticut women to test the hypothesis that genetic variation in xenobiotic metabolic pathway genes modifies the relation between hair dye use and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. No effect modifications were found for women who started using hair dyes in 1980 or afterward. For women who started using hair dye before 1980 as compared with never users, a statistically significantly increased risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma was found for carriers of CYP2C9 Ex3-52C>T TT/CT genotypes (odds ratio (OR) = 2.9, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.4, 6....
Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - October 30, 2009 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Zhang, Y., Hughes, K. J., Zahm, S. H., Zhang, Y., Holford, T. R., Dai, L., Bai, Y., Han, X., Qin, Q., Lan, Q., Rothman, N., Zhu, Y., Leaderer, B., Zheng, T. Tags: RESEARCH-ARTICLE Source Type: journals

Body Size, Recreational Physical Activity, and B-Cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Risk Among Women in the California Teachers Study.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Nutritional status and physical activity are known to alter immune function, which may be relevant to lymphomagenesis. The authors examined body size measurements and recreational physical activity in relation to risk of B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) in the prospective California Teachers Study. Between 1995 and 2007, 574 women were diagnosed with incident B-cell NHL among 121,216 eligible women aged 22-84 years at cohort entry. Multivariable-adjusted relative risks and 95% confidence intervals were estimated by fitting Cox proportional hazards models for all B-cell NHL combined and for the 3 most common subtypes: ...
Source: Am J Epidemiol - October 11, 2009 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Lu Y, Prescott J, Sullivan-Halley J, Henderson KD, Ma H, Chang ET, Clarke CA, Horn-Ross PL, Ursin G, Bernstein L Tags: Am J Epidemiol Source Type: journals

A Successful Mandatory Influenza Vaccination Campaign Using an Innovative Electronic Tracking System • Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions. Implementation of a novel vaccination tracking process and a hospital policy requiring influenza vaccination or declination yielded dramatic improvement in healthcare worker vaccination rates and likely will result in increased patient safety in our hospital. (Source: Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Latest Issue)
Source: Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Latest Issue - November 4, 2009 Category: Epidemiology Tags: article Original Article Source Type: journals

Measurement of Influenza Vaccination Coverage among Healthcare Personnel in US Hospitals • Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions. Hospitals vary in terms of the groups of individuals included in influenza vaccination coverage measurements. Standardized measures may improve comparability of hospital‐reported vaccination rates. Measuring coverage in a manner that facilitates identification of occupational groups with low vaccination rates may inform development of targeted interventions. (Source: Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Latest Issue)
Source: Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Latest Issue - November 4, 2009 Category: Epidemiology Tags: article Original Article Source Type: journals

Use of Fertility Drugs and Risk of Uterine Cancer: Results From a Large Danish Population-based Cohort Study.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Some epidemiologic studies have indicated that uterine cancer risk may be increased after use of fertility drugs. To further assess this association, the authors used data from a large cohort of 54,362 women diagnosed with infertility who were referred to Danish fertility clinics between 1965 and 1998. In a case-cohort study, rate ratios and 95% confidence intervals were used to assess the effects of 4 groups of fertility drugs on overall risk of uterine cancer after adjustment for potentially confounding factors. Through mid-2006, 83 uterine cancers were identified. Ever use of any fertility drug was not associated wi...
Source: Am J Epidemiol - November 1, 2009 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Jensen A, Sharif H, Kjaer SK Tags: Am J Epidemiol Source Type: journals

Measurement of Influenza Vaccination Coverage among Healthcare Personnel in US HospitalsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions. Hospitals vary in terms of the groups of individuals included in influenza vaccination coverage measurements. Standardized measures may improve comparability of hospital‐reported vaccination rates. Measuring coverage in a manner that facilitates identification of occupational groups with low vaccination rates may inform development of targeted interventions. (Source: Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Latest Issue)
Source: Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Latest Issue - October 23, 2009 Category: Epidemiology Tags: article Original Article Source Type: journals

Postmenopausal Breast Cancer Risk and Dietary Patterns in the E3N-EPIC Prospective Cohort StudyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Since evidence relating diet to breast cancer risk is not sufficiently consistent to elaborate preventive proposals, the authors examined the association between dietary patterns and breast cancer risk in a large French cohort study. The analyses included 2,381 postmenopausal invasive breast cancer cases diagnosed during a median 9.7-year follow-up period (1993–2005) among 65,374 women from the E3N-EPIC cohort. Scores for dietary patterns were obtained by factor analysis, and breast cancer hazard ratios were estimated by Cox proportional hazards regression for the highest quartile of dietary pattern score versus the ...
Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - October 30, 2009 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Cottet, V., Touvier, M., Fournier, A., Touillaud, M. S., Lafay, L., Clavel-Chapelon, F., Boutron-Ruault, M.-C. Tags: RESEARCH-ARTICLE Source Type: journals

Physical Activity's Impact on the Association of Fat and Fiber Intake With Survival After Breast CancerEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examined whether, after a breast cancer diagnosis, high intake of animal fat was associated with increased breast cancer mortality and high intake of fiber was associated with decreased breast cancer mortality. Participants were 3,846 US female nurses diagnosed with stages I–III breast cancer between 1976 and 2001 and followed until death or May 2006. Breast cancer mortality was calculated according to dietary intake quintiles first assessed at least 12 months after diagnosis and was cumulatively averaged and updated. There were 446 breast cancer deaths. In simple models adjusted for time since diagnosis, ...
Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - October 30, 2009 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Holmes, M. D., Chen, W. Y., Hankinson, S. E., Willett, W. C. Tags: RESEARCH-ARTICLE Source Type: journals

Genetic Variation in the Progesterone Receptor and Metabolism Pathways and Hormone Therapy in Relation to Breast Cancer RiskEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The relevance of progesterone to breast carcinogenesis is highlighted by evidence indicating that use of combined estrogen-progesterone therapy (EPT) is more strongly related to breast cancer risk than is use of unopposed estrogen therapy. However, few investigators have assessed how genetic variation in progesterone-related genes modifies the effect of EPT on risk. In an analysis combining data from 2 population-based case-control studies of postmenopausal breast cancer (1,296 cases and 1,055 controls) conducted in Washington State in 1997–1999 and 2000–2004, the authors evaluated how 51 single nucleotide poly...
Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - October 30, 2009 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Reding, K. W., Li, C. I., Weiss, N. S., Chen, C., Carlson, C. S., Duggan, D., Thummel, K. E., Daling, J. R., Malone, K. E. Tags: RESEARCH-ARTICLE Source Type: journals

Survey Study of the Knowledge, Attitudes, and Expected Behaviors of Critical Care Clinicians Regarding an Influenza PandemicEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions. ICU HCWs reported having minimal knowledge concerning the risk of and response to an influenza pandemic, even though more that one‐half of HCWs expect that a pandemic will occur in the near future. This finding in a high‐risk setting is of concern, given that lack of knowledge among HCWs may result in increased nosocomial transmission to HCWs and patients. Interventions to improve knowledge of pandemics and understanding of risks among ICU HCWs are essential. (Source: Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Latest Issue)
Source: Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Latest Issue - October 30, 2009 Category: Epidemiology Tags: article Original Article Source Type: journals

Genetic Variations in Xenobiotic Metabolic Pathway Genes, Personal Hair Dye Use, and Risk of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
From 1996 to 2000, the authors conducted a population-based case-control study among Connecticut women to test the hypothesis that genetic variation in xenobiotic metabolic pathway genes modifies the relation between hair dye use and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. No effect modifications were found for women who started using hair dyes in 1980 or afterward. For women who started using hair dye before 1980 as compared with never users, a statistically significantly increased risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma was found for carriers of CYP2C9 Ex3-52C>T TT/CT genotypes (odds ratio (OR) = 2.9, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.4...
Source: Am J Epidemiol - October 11, 2009 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Zhang Y, Hughes KJ, Zahm SH, Zhang Y, Holford TR, Dai L, Bai Y, Han X, Qin Q, Lan Q, Rothman N, Zhu Y, Leaderer B, Zheng T Tags: Am J Epidemiol Source Type: journals

Impact of Genotype Misclassification on Genetic Association Estimates and the Bayesian AdjustmentEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Genotypes of single nucleotide polymorphisms are subject to misclassification. If ignored, such misclassification can seriously distort the estimated genotype effects on the disease or outcome of interest. Validation data (gold standard or replicated surrogates) are required to assess the degree of misclassification and make adjustments. In practice, gold standard measurements may be unavailable or impractical. Collecting replicated surrogates is a reasonable option for validation data. In most practical applications, collecting replicated surrogates on all study subjects is not feasible; however, obtaining replicated surr...
Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - October 1, 2009 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Hossain, S., Le, N. D., Brooks-Wilson, A. R., Spinelli, J. J. Tags: RESEARCH-ARTICLE Source Type: journals

Human vaccinia infection after contact with a raccoon rabies vaccine bait - Pennsylvania, 2009.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This report describes this case, which was the second case of human vaccinia infection related to the ORV program. Public health agencies should educate the public, and particularly pet owners, regarding potential hazards associated with handling wildlife rabies vaccine baits and should provide guidance for persons exposed to this vaccine. PMID: 19893480 [PubMed - in process] (Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl...)
Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - November 6, 2009 Category: Epidemiology Tags: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep Source Type: journals

Optimizing Influenza Sentinel Surveillance at the State LevelEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Influenza-like illness data are collected via an Influenza Sentinel Provider Surveillance Network at the state level. Because participation is voluntary, locations of the sentinel providers may not reflect optimal geographic placement. The purpose of this study was to determine the "best" locations for sentinel providers in Iowa by using a maximal coverage model (MCM) and to compare the population coverage obtained with that of the current sentinel network. The authors used an MCM to maximize the Iowa population located within 20 miles (32.2 km) of 1–143 candidate sites and calculated the coverage provided by each ad...
Source: American Journal of Epidemiology - October 30, 2009 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Polgreen, P. M., Chen, Z., Segre, A. M., Harris, M. L., Pentella, M. A., Rushton, G. Tags: RESEARCH-ARTICLE Source Type: journals

Ethnic differences in human papillomavirus awareness and vaccine acceptabilityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion: These findings suggest some cultural barriers that could be addressed in tailored information aimed at ethnic minority groups. They also highlight the importance of recording ethnicity as part of HPV vaccine uptake data. (Source: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health)
Source: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health - November 18, 2009 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Marlow, L A V, Wardle, J, Forster, A S, Waller, J Tags: Epidemiologic studies, Cross-sectional studies, Ethnic studies Research reports Source Type: journals

Annual Incidence of Latent Tuberculosis Infection among Newly Employed Nurses at a Tertiary Care University Hospital • Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions. The poor overall agreement between TST and QFT‐G results may have been caused by the confounding effect of bacille Calmette‐Guérin vaccination. The annual risk of TB infection among newly employed nurses was at least 3% on the basis of results of both the TST and QFT‐G test. Stricter preventive strategies against TB spread should be implemented in our hospital. (Source: Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Latest Issue)
Source: Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Latest Issue - November 4, 2009 Category: Epidemiology Tags: article Original Article Source Type: journals

Survey Study of the Knowledge, Attitudes, and Expected Behaviors of Critical Care Clinicians Regarding an Influenza Pandemic • Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions. ICU HCWs reported having minimal knowledge concerning the risk of and response to an influenza pandemic, even though more that one‐half of HCWs expect that a pandemic will occur in the near future. This finding in a high‐risk setting is of concern, given that lack of knowledge among HCWs may result in increased nosocomial transmission to HCWs and patients. Interventions to improve knowledge of pandemics and understanding of risks among ICU HCWs are essential. (Source: Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Latest Issue)
Source: Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Latest Issue - November 4, 2009 Category: Epidemiology Tags: article Original Article Source Type: journals