Successful control of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in a Korean university hospital: A 6-year perspective

Risk of infection following colonization with carbapenem-resistant Enterobactericeae: A systematic review

“…[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] Characteristics of the studies meeting inclusion criteria are reported in Table 1. Among these 10 studies, 1,806 colonized patients were used in our analysis.…”

“…Seven studies examined carbapenem-resistant K pneumoniae exclusively, 12,14-19 2 reported prevalence of carbapenem-resistant A baumannii, 11,13 and the remaining examined multiple CRE. 20 Seven reported site of infection [11][12][13][14]17,19,20 and 6 studies included data on length of stay amongst CRE cases, 12,[14][15][16][17]20 whereas only 5 included mortality data.…”

“…20 Seven reported site of infection [11][12][13][14]17,19,20 and 6 studies included data on length of stay amongst CRE cases, 12,[14][15][16][17]20 whereas only 5 included mortality data. 12,[14][15][16][17] For those studies that reported data on gender, 11,14,17,18,20 men accounted for 33%-69.6% of patients colonized or infected with CRE.…”

“…Among these 10 studies, 1,806 colonized patients were used in our analysis. For 2 studies, 13,14 only data on those patients with nosocomial acquisition of CRE were used for analysis because subsequent rates of infection were reported for only these patients. In a third instance, 15 the authors reported on rates of infection for those patients infected with K pneumoniae alone; thus, only this subset of patients was used in our analysis.…”

“…One study 15 performed hospitalwide screening, whereas 4 12,18-20 performed screening on patients deemed to be at higher risk based on past acute-or long-term care admission, housing on a high-prevalence ward, or known contact with other patients infected or colonized with CRE. For the remaining studies, screening was performed at specified intervals for those patients admitted to an intensive care unit 11,13,14,16 (Table 1).…”