A pilot study was designed to develop, implement, and evaluate a system for pain assessment and monitoring in a LTCF.
This outbreak was associated with an LTCF.
One hospital identified a local long-term care facility (LTCF) as a source of MRSA cases in their hospital and provided education resources to the LTCF.
An important finding of this study is that suboptimal or inappropriate antibiotic prescribing is not something the LTCF participants believed was happening in their LTCF.
26 patients (12.3%) had been hospitalized in the 30 days prior to entering the LTCF.
There also are costs of managing CDI with onset within an LTCF.
We demonstrate the clonality and temporal stability of ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae within a single LTCF.
We report the first identified ESBL-KP in an Irish LTCF.
Several studies have assessed the prevalence of colonisation with ESBL-EC among LTCF participants.
We identified 18 GAS clusters comprising a total of 40 cases (10% of LTCF cases).
