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Facility-Level Correlates of Antimicrobial Use in Nursing Homes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Mark Loeb ,
Allison McGeer ,
Andrew Simor ,
Stephen D. Walter ,
Suzanne Bradley ,
Donald E. Low  and
Lorraine Moss
Mark Loeb*
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton and the Regional Laboratory Medicine Program, Toronto Medical Laboratories, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Allison McGeer
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology, Toronto Medical Laboratories and Mount Sinai Hospital and the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Andrew Simor
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology, Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre and the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Stephen D. Walter
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Suzanne Bradley
Affiliation:
Divisions of Geriatric Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Veterans'Affairs Health Systems, and the University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Donald E. Low
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology, Toronto Medical Laboratories and Mount Sinai Hospital and the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lorraine Moss
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
*
Henderson General Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8V1C3
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Abstract

We assessed the contribution of facility-Ievel variables to antimicrobial use in a cohort of 50 nursing homes and found that antimicrobial use was significantly correlated with the percentage of nursing home residents with feeding tubes, the number of healthcare aides, and the country of origin of the facility.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , February 2004 , pp. 173 - 176
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2004

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