Physician
Infectious Disease
Dr. Scott K. Fridkin, MD
Scott Fridkin practices Infectious Disease. He attended Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. Scott K. Fridkin, MD is a published doctor. He published 52 publications, including: 'Evaluating the Use of the Case Mix Index for Risk Adjustment of Healthcare-Associated Infection Data: An Illustration using Clostridium difficile Infection Data from t...'
Publications
- Evaluating the Use of the Case Mix Index for Risk Adjustment of Healthcare-Associated Infection Data: An Illustration using Clostridium difficile Infection Data from t...
- Burden of Clostridium difficile infection in the United States.
- Evaluating state-specific antibiotic resistance measures derived from central line-associated bloodstream infections, national healthcare safety network, 2011.
- Prevalence of antimicrobial use in US acute care hospitals, May-September 2011.
- Determinants of Clostridium difficile Infection Incidence Across Diverse United States Geographic Locations.
- Multistate point-prevalence survey of health care-associated infections.
- Executive Summary: Developing a New, National Approach to Surveillance for Ventilator-associated Events.
- Developing a new, national approach to surveillance for ventilator-associated events: executive summary.
- Developing a new, national approach to surveillance for ventilator-associated events.
- Implementing a Strategy for Monitoring Inpatient Antimicrobial Use Among Hospitals in the United States.
- Incidence Trends in Pathogen-Specific Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections in US Intensive Care Units, 1990-2010.
- National Burden of Invasive Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections, United States, 2011.
- National estimates of central line-associated bloodstream infections in critical care patients.
- Antimicrobial-resistant pathogens associated with healthcare-associated infections: summary of data reported to the national healthcare safety network at the centers f...
- Device-associated infection rates, device utilization, and antimicrobial resistance in long-term acute care hospitals reporting to the National Healthcare Safety Netwo...
- Investigating systematic misclassification of central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) to secondary bloodstream infection during health care-associated i...
- Improved risk adjustment in public reporting: coronary artery bypass graft surgical site infections.
- Improving surveillance definitions for ventilator-associated pneumonia in an era of public reporting and performance measurement.
- Network approach for prevention of healthcare-associated infections.
- Improving risk-adjusted measures of surgical site infection for the national healthcare safety network.
- Trends in catheter-associated urinary tract infections in adult intensive care units-United States, 1990-2007.
- Meaningful measure of performance: a foundation built on valid, reproducible findings from surveillance of health care-associated infections.
- Clinical practice guidelines by the infectious diseases society of america for the treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in adults and ch...
- Outcomes among inmates treated for coccidioidomycosis at a correctional institution during a community outbreak, Kern County, California, 2004.
- Contaminated product water as the source of Phialemonium curvatum bloodstream infection among patients undergoing hemodialysis.
- Trends in incidence of late-onset methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in neonatal intensive care units: data from the National Nosocomial Infections ...
- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus central line-associated bloodstream infections in US intensive care units, 1997-2007.
- NHSN annual update: antimicrobial-resistant pathogens associated with healthcare-associated infections: annual summary of data reported to the National Healthcare Safe...
- More challenges in the prevention and management of community-associated, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus skin disease.
- Comparison of the use of administrative data and an active system for surveillance of invasive aspergillosis .
- Implications of detecting the mold Syncephalastrum in clinical specimens of New Orleans residents after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
- Excess costs of hospital care associated with neonatal candidemia.
- The impact of an antibiotic cycling program on empirical therapy for gram-negative infections.
- Outbreak of cutaneous Rhizopus arrhizus infection associated with karaya ostomy bags.
- Outbreak of bloodstream infection with the mold Phialemonium among patients receiving dialysis at a hemodialysis unit.
- Antifungal prophylaxis to prevent neonatal candidiasis: a survey of perinatal physician practices.
- Epidemiology of community-onset candidemia in Connecticut and Maryland.
- Changing incidence of Candida bloodstream infections among NICU patients in the United States: 1995-2004.
- Evaluation of amphotericin B interpretive breakpoints for Candida bloodstream isolates by correlation with therapeutic outcome.
- Prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization in the United States, 2001-2002.
- The changing face of fungal infections in health care settings.
- Candidemia is costly--plain and simple.
- No evidence of a mild form of inhalational Bacillus anthracis infection during a bioterrorism-related inhalational anthrax outbreak in Washington, D.C., in 2001.
- Determining risk factors for candidemia among newborn infants from population-based surveillance: Baltimore, Maryland, 1998-2000.
- Cycling empirical antimicrobial agents to prevent emergence of antimicrobial-resistant Gram-negative bacteria among intensive care unit patients.
- Epidemiologic and molecular characterization of an outbreak of Candida parapsilosis bloodstream infections in a community hospital.
- Emergence of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus at a Memphis, Tennessee Children's Hospital.
- Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the absence of vancomycin exposure.
- Drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus surveillance.
- Routine cycling of antimicrobial agents as an infection-control measure.
- The epidemiology of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus colonization in a medical intensive care unit.
Schools
Loyola University of Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
Fairview University Med Center
Rush Presby St Luke39s M C
Doctors Specialties
- Infectious Disease Medicine
- Infectious Disease
Accepted Insurances
Education
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Rush University Medical Center -
University of Minnesota at Fairview -
Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
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