James Hurley

Candida-Acinetobacter-Pseudomonas Interaction Modelled within 286 ICU Infection Prevention Studies

James C Hurley

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Fungi

BACKGROUND: Whether Candida interacts to enhance the invasive potential of Acinetobacter and Pseudomonas bacteria cannot be resolv..

Estimated Treatment Effects of Tight Glycaemic Targets in Mild Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Multiple Cut-Off Regression Discontinuity Study Design

David Song, James C Hurley, Maryanne Lia

Journal article  |  2020  |  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Background: We investigated the treatment effects of tight glycaemic targets in a population universally screened according to the..

Oral Vancomycin Prophylaxis for Clostridioides difficile infection; cause or effect?

James C Hurley

Journal article  |  2020  |  Clinical Infectious Diseases

Structural equation modeling the "control of gut overgrowth" in the prevention of ICU-acquired Gram-negative infection

James C Hurley

Journal article  |  2020  |  Critical Care (UK)

BACKGROUND: Conceptually, the "control of gut overgrowth" (COGO) is key in mediating prevention against infection with Gram-negati..

Selective Digestive Decontamination Is Neither Safe Nor Efficacious for Critically Ill Patients

James C Hurley

Journal article  |  2020  |  Critical Care Medicine

Forrest plots or caterpillar plots?

James C Hurley

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Antibiotics in the ICU; benefit or harm?

James C Hurley

Journal article  |  2020  |  Intensive Care Medicine

How the Cluster-randomized Trial "Works"

James C Hurley

Journal article  |  2020  |  Clinical Infectious Diseases

Cluster randomized trials (CRT) are able to address research questions that randomized controlled trials (RCT) of individual patie..

Incidence of coagulase-negative staphylococcal bacteremia among ICU patients: decontamination studies as a natural experiment

James C Hurley

Journal article  |  2019  |  European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

Studies of selective digestive decontamination as a natural experiment to evaluate topical antibiotic prophylaxis and cephalosporin use as population-level risk factors for enterococcal bacteraemia among ICU patients

James C Hurley

Journal article  |  2019  |  Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

BACKGROUND: Selective digestive decontamination (SDD) and selective oropharyngeal decontamination (SOD) regimens appear protective..