The impact of vancomycin-resistant (VRE) screening policy change on the incidence of healthcare-associated VRE bacteremia.

Objective: To evaluate the impact of a vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) screening policy change on the incidence of healthcare-associated (HA)-VRE bacteremia in an endemic hospital setting.

Design: A quasi-experimental before-and-after study.

Setting: A 1,989-bed tertiary-care referral center in Seoul, Republic of Korea.

The role of postoperative pelvic radiation in stage IV rectal cancer after resection of primary tumor.

Purpose: To evaluate the effect of pelvic radiotherapy (RT) in patients with stage IV rectal cancer treated with resection of primary tumor with or without metastasectomy.

Materials And Methods: Medical records of 112 patients with stage IV rectal cancer treated with resection of primary tumor between 1990 and 2011 were retrospectively reviewed. Fifty-nine patients received synchronous or staged metastasectomy whereas fifty-three patients did not.