Publications by authors named "M Koek"
Introduction: Central venous catheters (CVCs) can lead to central line-related bloodstream infections (CRBSIs). A six-item bundle was introduced in 2009 to prevent CRBSI in Dutch hospitals.
Aim: This study aimed to determine the impact of an intervention bundle on CRBSI risk.
The growth rate of non-enhancing low-grade glioma has prognostic value for both malignant progression and survival, but quantification of growth is difficult due to the irregular shape of the tumor. Volumetric assessment could provide a reliable quantification of tumor growth, but is only feasible if fully automated. Recent advances in automated tumor segmentation have made such a volume quantification possible, and this work describes the clinical implementation of automated volume quantification in an application named EASE: Erasmus Automated SEgmentation.
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- Healthcare-associated infections (HAI) are common issues in medical care, and automated surveillance (AS) presents a way to improve monitoring over conventional manual methods, which can be resource-intensive and inconsistent.
- The PRAISE network, consisting of 30 experts from ten European countries, has created a roadmap to help implement AS effectively across healthcare networks, ensuring data consistency for quality improvement.
- The roadmap outlines key aspects like selecting surveillance targets, designing AS systems, maintaining them, and identifying further research needs, all while providing additional documents on governance and technology for a successful transition.
Objective: Surveillance of healthcare-associated infections is often performed by manual chart review. Semiautomated surveillance may substantially reduce workload and subjective data interpretation. We assessed the validity of a previously published algorithm for semiautomated surveillance of deep surgical site infections (SSIs) after total hip arthroplasty (THA) or total knee arthroplasty (TKA) in Dutch hospitals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Prevalence of healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs) and antimicrobial use in hospitals in the Netherlands has been measured using voluntary biannual national point-prevalence surveys (PPSs).
Aim: To describe trends in the prevalence of patients with HCAI, risk factors, and antimicrobial use in 2007-2016.
Methods: In the PPS, patient characteristics, use of medical devices and antimicrobials, and presence of HCAI on the survey day are reported for all hospitalized patients, excluding patients in the day-care unit and psychiatric wards.