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Cost-effectiveness of Preoperative Screening and Decolonization in Cochlear Implantation

OTO Open, 2019
Objective Infection following cochlear implantation is medically and economically devastating. The cost-effectiveness (CE) of colonization screening and decolonization for infection prophylaxis in cochlear implantation has not been examined. Study Design
Gregory J. Kirchner MPH, Hovhannes Ghazaryan MS, Alexander M. Lieber, Anisha Reddy Sunkerneni, Brian J. McKinnon MD, MBA, MPH   +4 more
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Decolonizing standards

Information Services and Use, 2023
This paper is based upon the Miles Conrad Lecture presented by Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble at the 2023 NISO Plus conference on February 15, 2023. Through her writing, Speaking, and advocacy, Dr. Noble has drawn attention to the extensive biases and embedded racism that exist in many technologies that are used not only in scholarly research, but also ...
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Heterogeneity in Pre-operative Staphylococcus aureus Screening and Decolonization Strategies among Healthcare Institutions

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology
Background: Staphylococcus aureus (SA) is the most common pathogen causing surgical site infections (SSIs). In the past decade, strategies incorporating new SA decolonization products have been implemented to prevent SSIs in surgical patients.
Sarah Bennis, Shalini Kulasingam, Patricia Ferrieri, Susan Kline   +3 more
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Decolonization Dilemmas: What’s Current and What’s Needed—A Survey of the SHEA Research Network and Affiliated US-based Hospitals

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology
Background Decolonization decreases risk of healthcare-associated and post-discharge infections. Most decolonization data are derived from methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) studies, although results have been extended to other multidrug ...
KC Coffey, Trudy Grossman, David Banach, Anthony Harris, David Hooper, Susan Huang, Erica Shenoy   +6 more
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Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures

Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2020
In this article we review learnings from our collaborative efforts to engage with the complexities and challenges of decolonization across varied educational contexts.
Sharon Stein, Vanessa Andreotti, Rene Suša, Sarah Amsler, Dallas Hunt, Cash Ahenakew, Elwood Jimmy, Tereza Cajkova, Will Valley, Camilla Cardoso, Dino Siwek, Benicio Pitaguary, Dani D’Emilia, Ubiracy Pataxó, Bill Calhoun, Haruko Okano   +15 more
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Towards the \u27tangible unknown\u27: Decolonization and the Indigenous future

, 2012
On the occasion of the inaugural issue of Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, we examine the many contradictions, contestations and possible pathways to decolonization.
Sium, Aman, Desai, Chandni, Ritskes, Eric   +2 more
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On Decolonizing US Education: Lessons from the Caribbean and South Africa

The Professional Educator, 2022
US education is hardly divorced from systemic societal inequalities. Utilizing the cases of the Englishspeaking Caribbean and post-apartheid South Africa decolonization efforts, we engage the settler coin concept to interrogate the popular notion that we
Shan Sappleton , Doug Adams
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Decolonization of patients and health care workers to control nosocomial spread of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a simulation study

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2012
Background Control of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) transmission has been unsuccessful in many hospitals. Recommended control measures include isolation of colonized patients, rather than decolonization of carriage among patients and/
Gurieva Tatiana V, Bootsma Martin CJ, Bonten Marc JM   +2 more
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Sitting in Many Camps—Innovative Approaches and Methods for First Nations‐Led Research Into Indigenous Peacebuilding

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2021, a desktop review was conducted of published references to First Nations peoples' approaches to conflict and its management in Australia (Project Stage One), culminating in a report published in 2024. This article focuses on Project Stage Two, a complex, innovative research undertaking building on the findings of Stage One, and being ...
Helen Bishop, Alysoun Boyle, Tania Sourdin, Bin Li   +3 more
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Staphylococcal decolonization to prevent surgical site infection: Is there a role in colorectal surgery?

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, 2022
Objective: We implemented a preoperative staphylococcal decolonization protocol for colorectal surgeries if efforts to further reduce surgical site infections (SSIs). Design: Retrospective observational study. Setting: Tertiary-care, academic medical
Rasha Raslan, Michelle Doll, Heather Albert, Hirsh Shah, Jaime Bohl, Kaila Cooper, Michael P. Stevens, Gonzalo Bearman   +7 more
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