Daniel Curran

The value of ready-to-use disinfectant wipes: compliance, employee time, and costs.

Cleaning and disinfection practices of environmental surfaces are critical interventions for reducing health care-associated infections. We studied the value of ready-to-use cleaning and disinfection wipes compared with the traditional towel and bucket method. When using ready-to-use wipes, we found compliance to be significantly higher, a more rapid cleaning and disinfection process, and potential cost savings. Facilities should consider these products when making environmental services product selections.

A single genotype of Acinetobacter baumannii expresses multiple antibiotic susceptibility phenotypes

It is common practice to define a bacterium with unequal antibiotic susceptibility phenotypes as a different genotype. Here, we describe the utility of this practice for Acinetobacter baumannii. We determined antibiotic susceptibility for 19 clinical isolates of A baumannii. Repetitive sequence polymerase chain reaction method was used to determine genotypes. Although all isolates were of the same genotype, 79% were predicted to be different based on susceptibility patterns. The antibiotic susceptibility phenotype does not accurately predict the genotype of A baumannii.

Visual grids for managing data completeness in clinical research datasets

Missing data arise in clinical research datasets for reasons ranging from incomplete electronic health records to incorrect trial data collection. This has an adverse effect on analysis performed with the data, but it can also affect the management of a clinical trial itself. We propose two graphical visualization schemes to aid in managing the completeness of a clinical research dataset: the binary completeness grid (BCG) for single patient observation, and the gradient completeness grid (GCG) for an entire dataset. We use these tools to manage three clinical trials. Two are ongoing observational trials, while the other is a cohort study that is complete. The completeness grids revealed unexpected patterns in our data and enabled us to identify records that should have been purged and identify missing follow-up data from sets of observations thought to be complete. Binary and gradient completeness grids provide a rapid, convenient way to visualize missing data in clinical datasets.

793Incidence of Cardiovascular Events in Patients with Influenza Pneumonia or Pneumonia Due to Other Etiologies

Pneumonia or Pneumonia Due to Other Etiologies Jorge Perez San Juan, MD; Daniel Curran, MD; Lisandra Rodriguez Hernandez, MD; Robert Kelley, PhD; Timothy L. Wiemken, PhD, MPH, CIC; Forest Arnold, DO; Raul Nakamatsu, MD; Anupama Raghuram, MD; Paula Peyrani, MD; James Summersgill, PhD; Ruth Carrico, PhD, RN, FSHEA, CIC; Julio A. Ramirez, MD; Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY