AJIC: American Journal of Infection Control
Volume 39, Issue 4 , Pages 263-269 , May 2011

Nursing home deficiency citations for infection control

  • Nicholas G. Castle, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Policy and Management, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to Nicholas G. Castle, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy Management, A610 Crabtree Hall, 130 DeSoto Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261.
    • ,
  • Laura M. Wagner, PhD, RN

      Affiliations

    • New York University College of Nursing, New York, NY
    • ,
  • Jamie C. Ferguson-Rome, MHA

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Policy and Management, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
    • ,
  • Aiju Men, MS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Policy and Management, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
    • ,
  • Steven M. Handler, MD, MS, CMD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedical Informatics and Division of Geriatric Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
    • LTC Health Information Technology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Senior Communities Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, PA

References 

  1. Richards C. Infections in residents of long-term care facilities: an agenda for research report of an expert panel. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2002;20:570–576
  2. Barker WH, Zimmer JG, Hall WJ, Ruff BC, Freundlich CB, Eggert GM. Rates, patterns, causes, and costs of hospitalization of nursing home residents: a population-based study. Am J Public Health. 1994;84:1615–1620
  3. Hu T-W. Impact of urinary incontinence on healthcare costs. J Am Geriatr Soc. 1990;38:292–295
  4. Mody L, Langa KM, Saint S, Bradley SF. Preventing infections in nursing homes: a survey of infection control practices in southeast Michigan. Am J Infect Control. 2005;33:489–492
  5. Pan A. Adherence to hand hygiene in an Italian long-term care facility. Am J Infect Control. 2008;36:495–497
  6. Huang TT, Wu SC. Evaluation of a training programme on knowledge and compliance of nurse ’assistants’ hand hygiene in nursing homes. J Hosp Infect. 2008;68:164–170
  7. Fendler EJ. The impact of alcohol hand sanitizer use on infection rates in an extended care facility. Am J Infect Control. 2002;30:226–233
  8. Richards CL. Infection control in long-term care facilities. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2007;8(Suppl 3):S18–S25
  9. Kash BA, Hawes C, Phillips CD. Comparing staffing levels in the Online Survey Certification and Reporting (OSCAR) system with the Medicaid Cost Report data: are differences systematic. Gerontologist. 2007;47:480–489
  10. Grabowski DC, Feng Z, Intrator O, Mor V. Recent trends in state nursing home payment policies. Health Aff. 2004;W4:363–373
  11. Putnam M, Fengyan T, Brooks-Danso A, Pickard J, Morrow-Howell NL. Professionals’ beliefs about nursing home regulations in Missouri. J Appl Gerontol. 2007;26:290–304
  12. Allen JE. Nursing home federal requirements: guidelines to surveyors and survey protocols. New York: Springer; 2006;
  13. Castle NG, Engberg J, Lave J, Fisher A. Factors associated with increasing nursing home closures. Health Serv Res. 2009;44:1088–1109
  14. Comondore VR, Devereaux PJ, Zhou Q, Stone SB, Busse JW, Ravindran NC, et al. Quality of care in for-profit and not-for-profit nursing homes: systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ. 2009;4:339
  15. Zeger SL, Liang KY. An overview of methods for the analysis of longitudinal data. Stat Med. 1992;11:1825–1839
  16. SAS Institute. Multicollinearity in logistic regression, 1999. Available from: www.uky.edu/ComputingCenter/SSTARS/MulticollinearityinLogisticRegression.htm. Accessed July 2, 2009.
  17. Smith A, Carusone SC, Loeb M. Hand hygiene practices of health care workers in long-term care facilities. Am J Infect Control. 2008;36:492–494
  18. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Healthcare-associated infections, 2009. Available from: www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dhqp/healthdis.html. Accessed November 7, 2010.
  19. Goldrick BA. Infection control programs in skilled nursing long-term care facilities: an assessment. Am J Infect Control. 1999;27:4–9
  20. Ahlbrecht H, Shearen C, Degelau J, Guay DRP. Team approach to infection prevention and control in the nursing home setting. Am J Infect Control. 1999;27:64–70
  21. Castle NG. Nursing home caregiver staffing levels and quality of care: a literature review. J Appl Gerontol. 2008;27:375–405
  22. Otero RB. Current approaches to infection control, 1993. Available from: http://findarticles.com/. Accessed January 14, 2010.
  23. Rao GG, Jeanes A, Russell H, Wilson D, Atere-Roberts E, O'Sullivan D, et al. Effectiveness of short-term, enhanced, infection control support in improving compliance with infection control guidelines and practice in nursing homes: a cluster randomized trial. Epidemiol Infect. 2009;137:1465–1471
  24. Smyer M, Brannon D, Cohn M. Improving nursing home care through training and job redesign. Gerontologist. 1992;32:327–333
  25. National Nursing Aide Assessment Program. 2004 NNAAP nurse aide practice written exam packet. Available from: http://www.asisvcs.com/publications/pdf/069912.pdf. Accessed November 7, 2010.
  26. Pittet D, Donaldson L. Clean care is safer care: the first global challenge of the WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety. Am J Infect Control. 2005;33:476–479
  27. World Health Organization. First global patient safety challenge: clean care is safer care. WHO guidelines on hand hygiene in health care. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization; 2009;

 Conflict of interest: None to report.

PII: S0196-6553(11)00111-8

doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2010.12.010

AJIC: American Journal of Infection Control
Volume 39, Issue 4 , Pages 263-269 , May 2011

Article Tools

* Image Usage & Resolution