J.S. Garner’s scientific contributions

... In response to the findings from CHIP, the Centers for Disease Control recommended in 1970 that hospitals staff their programs with an infection control nurse and a hospital epidemiologist. 32 By 1976, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals (JCAH) created infection control standards for these committees and they recommended surveillance personnel for each hospital. 33,34 But these committees were ineffectual because they lacked specific expertise and a specific strategy to limit unnecessary antibiotics. ...

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Efforts to regulate antibiotic misuse in hospitals: A history

... Passive surveillance means collecting data for other purposes, like samples which are regularly collected from patients can be tested for nosocomial infectious agents and Active surveillance means data collection for the specific purpose, and these are the types based on data collection (Morley, 2004). But the sensitivity of active surveillance is greater than the passive surveillance (Brachman, 1993). ...

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Nosocomial Infections and their Surveillance in Veterinary Hospitals