Temporal Changes in Prevalence of Antimicrobial Resistance in 23 U.S. Hospitals

K. Fridkin, Scott; A. Hill, Holly; Volkova, Nataliya; R. Edwards, Jonathan; Lawton, Rachel; P. Gaynes, Robert; E. McGowan, John; Intensive Care Antimicrobial Resistance Epidemiology (ICARE), the

doi:10.3201/eid0807.010427

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Temporal Changes in Prevalence of Antimicrobial Resistance in 23 U.S. Hospitals

Published in Emerging infectious diseases • Jul 1, 2002

Authors:

Scott K. Fridkin

Holly A. Hill

Nataliya Volkova

Abstract

Antimicrobial resistance is increasing in nearly all health-care-associated pathogens. We examined changes in resistance prevalence during 1996-1999 in 23 hospitals by using two statistical methods. When the traditional chi-square test of pooled mean resistance prevalence was used, most organisms ap...

Subject

Ciprofloxacin

Staphylococcus aureus

Antimicrobial

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