2023
Development and validation of a standardized blood culture contamination definition and metric dashboard for a large health care system.
Hancock J, Campbell S, Jones M, Wang-Rodriguez J, Klutts S, Campbell S, Weber T, Greene B, Espinosa R, Orth C, Anderson L, Vigliotti C, Frank A, Baraceros-Pineda R, Donkle J, Cummings T, Behrends L, Young J, Krajcir S, Scholten R, Klutts J. Development and validation of a standardized blood culture contamination definition and metric dashboard for a large health care system. American Journal Of Clinical Pathology 2023, 160: 255-260. PMID: 37167032, DOI: 10.1093/ajcp/aqad044.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2017
Cost-Effectiveness Study of Criteria for Screening Cerebrospinal Fluid To Determine the Need for Herpes Simplex Virus PCR Testing
Hauser RG, Campbell SM, Brandt CA, Wang S. Cost-Effectiveness Study of Criteria for Screening Cerebrospinal Fluid To Determine the Need for Herpes Simplex Virus PCR Testing. Journal Of Clinical Microbiology 2017, 55: 1566-1575. PMID: 28298450, PMCID: PMC5405275, DOI: 10.1128/jcm.00119-17.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCerebrospinal fluidHerpes simplex virus (HSV) central nervous system (CNS) infectionPCR testingCentral nervous system infectionCSF white blood cellsHSV PCR testingNervous system infectionLarge health care systemWhite blood cellsCost-effectiveness studiesHealth care systemDecision analysis modelHSV encephalitisCNS infectionSystem infectionHSV infectionAbsence of markersImmunocompetent hostsNecessary diagnostic testsOrgan transplantsPatient careDiagnostic testsBlood cellsCare systemPCR test