Leon Worth

Diagnostic Yield of Initial and Consecutive Blood Cultures in Children With Cancer and Febrile Neutropenia.

Gabrielle M Haeusler, Richard De Abreu Lourenco, Hannah Clark, Karin A Thursky, Monica A Slavin, Franz E Babl, Francoise Mechinaud, Frank Alvaro, Julia Clark, Bhavna Padhye, Marianne Phillips, Leanne Super, Heather Tapp, Thomas Walwyn, David Ziegler, Robert Phillips, Leon J Worth

Journal article  |  2021  |  Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

BACKGROUND: The timing and necessity of repeated blood cultures (BCs) in children with cancer and febrile neutropenia (FN) are unk..

Establishing essential metrics for antifungal stewardship in hospitals: the results of an international Delphi survey

A Khanina, KF Urbancic, GM Haeusler, DCM Kong, AP Douglas, SY Tio, LJ Worth, MA Slavin, KA Thursky

Journal article  |  2021  |  Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

BACKGROUND: Guidance on assessment of the quantity and appropriateness of antifungal prescribing is required to assist hospitals t..

Identifying targets for improvement using a nationally standardized survey: Surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis in orthopedic surgery

Courtney E Ierano, Karin Thursky, Caroline Marshall, Sonia Koning, Rodney James, Sandra Johnson, Nabeel Imam, Leon J Worth, Trisha Peel

Journal article  |  2020  |  Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

BACKGROUND: Surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis (SAP) is commonly administered in orthopedic procedures. Research regarding SAP app..

A randomised trial of two 2-dose influenza vaccination strategies for patients following autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

Benjamin W Teh, Vivian KY Leung, Francesca L Mordant, Sheena G Sullivan, Trish Joyce, Simon J Harrison, Arseniy Khvorov, Ian G Barr, Kanta Subbarao, Monica A Slavin, Leon J Worth

Journal article  |  2020  |  Clinical Infectious Diseases

BACKGROUND: Seroprotection and seroconversion rates are not well understood for 2-dose inactivated influenza vaccination (IIV) sch..

'Closing the gap': Evaluating the success of non-mandatory strategies for influenza vaccination of Victorian healthcare workers

N Bennett, S Crouch, A Hoskins, MJ Malloy, K Walker, LJ Worth

Journal article  |  2020  |  Vaccine

INTRODUCTION: While annual influenza vaccination of healthcare workers (HCWs) is recommended, uptake is often suboptimal. We sough..

Classification performance of administrative coding data for detection of invasive fungal infection in paediatric cancer patients

Jake C Valentine, Leon J Worth, Karin M Verspoor, Lisa Hall, Daniel K Yeoh, Karin A Thursky, Julia E Clark, Gabrielle M Haeusler

Journal article  |  2020  |  PLoS One

BACKGROUND: Invasive fungal infection (IFI) detection requires application of complex case definitions by trained staff. Administr..

Factors associated with antimicrobial choice for surgical prophylaxis in Australia

Courtney Ierano, Karin Thursky, Trisha Peel, Sonia Koning, Rod James, Sandra Johnson, Lisa Hall, Leon J Worth, Caroline Marshall

Journal article  |  2020  |  JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance

Abstract Background Cefazolin is the most commonly recommended antimicrobial f..

Attributable length of stay, mortality risk and costs of bacterial healthcare-associated infections in Australia: a retrospective case-cohort study.

XJ Lee, AJ Stewardson, LJ Worth, N Graves, TM Wozniak

Journal article  |  2020  |  Clinical Infectious Diseases

BACKGROUND: Unbiased estimates of the health and economic impact of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are scarce and focus l..

Measles immunisation status of healthcare workers in smaller Victorian hospitals: can we do better?

Noleen Bennett, Brett Sutton, Janet Strachan, Alex Hoskins, Michael J Malloy, Leon J Worth

Journal article  |  2020  |  Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Candida auris in an Australian health care facility: importance of screening high risk patients

Leon J Worth, Simon J Harrison, Michael Dickinson, Annaliese van Diemen, Jennifer Breen, Susan Harper, Caroline Marshall, Deborah A Williamson, Karin A Thursky, Monica A Slavin

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Medical Journal of Australia