Publications by authors named "Lisa M Kolodziej"
Objectives: To explore the influenza and COVID-19 vaccination status among Dutch nursing home (NH) health care workers (HCWs), factors associated with vaccination including the influence of the pandemic, and the facilitators and barriers to vaccination willingness.
Design: An explanatory sequential mixed methods study.
Setting And Participants: HCWs providing direct care to residents in Dutch NHs.
Background: Understanding the dynamics of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) household transmission is important for adequate infection control measures in this ongoing pandemic.
Methods: Households were enrolled upon a polymerase chain reaction-confirmed index case between October and December 2020, prior to the coronavirus disease 2019 vaccination program. Saliva samples were obtained by self-sampling at days 1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 14, 21, 28, 35, and 42 from study inclusion.
The aim of this cohort study was to identify resident-related factors that influence antibiotic treatment decisions for urinary tract infections (UTIs) in nursing home residents and to provide an overview of the appropriateness of antibiotic treatment decisions according to the updated Dutch guideline for UTIs in frail older adults. The PROGRESS study dataset, consisting of 298 suspected UTI episodes in Dutch nursing home residents, was used. The presence of dysuria was associated with the highest frequency of antibiotic prescription (87.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Limited data are available on childhood encephalitis. Our study aimed to increase insight on clinical presentation, etiology, and clinical outcome of children with severe encephalitis in the Netherlands.
Methods: We identified patients through the Dutch Pediatric Intensive Care Evaluation database and included children diagnosed with encephalitis <18 years of age admitted to 1 of the 8 pediatric intensive care units (PICU) in the Netherlands between January 2003 and December 2013.