Journal article
Use of a Victorian statewide surveillance programme to evaluate the burden of healthcare-associated Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia and Clostridioides difficile infection in patients with cancer
JC Valentine, L Hall, KM Verspoor, E Gillespie, LJ Worth
Internal Medicine Journal | WILEY | Published : 2022
DOI: 10.1111/imj.15301
Abstract
Background: Patients with cancer are at high risk for infection, but the epidemiology of healthcare-associated Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia (HA-SAB) and Clostridioides difficile infection (HA-CDI) in Australian cancer patients has not previously been reported. Aims: To compare the cumulative aggregate incidence and time trends of HA-SAB and HA-CDI in a predefined cancer cohort with a mixed statewide patient population in Victoria, Australia. Methods: All SAB and CDI events in patients admitted to Victorian healthcare facilities between 1 July 2010 and 31 December 2018 were submitted to the Victorian Healthcare Associated Infection Surveillance System Coordinating Centre. Descriptive ana..
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Funding Acknowledgements
J.C.V. acknowledges funding support from an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship awarded by the University of Melbourne and a Cardinal Health Infection Control Scholarship awarded by the Australasian College for Infection Prevention and Control. The authors thank Dr Ann Bull for preparing the data for analysis and Dr Tim Spelman from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden for review of study methods. The VICNISS Coordinating Centre is fully funded by the Victorian Government's Department of Health.