Dr. Kurt B Stevenson M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
456 W 10th Ave Columbus OH, 43210About
Dr. Kurt Stevenson is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Columbus, OH. Dr. Stevenson specializes in infections that are difficult to diagnose or unresponsive to treatments, such as HIV or airborne infections from a foreign country. Infectious disease specialists usually work with conditions that are not treatable by a primary physician but it is important to keep contact with the primary physician in order to receive information about the patients history and for deciding which diagnostic tests are appropriate.
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Performance improvement in the long-term-care setting: building on the foundation of infection control.
- Validity of the minimum data set in identifying urinary tract infections in residents of long-term care facilities.
- Pneumococcal immunization in older adults: implications for the long-term-care setting.
- Standardized infection surveillance in long-term care: interfacility comparisons from a regional cohort of facilities.
- Bacterial contamination of stethoscopes with antimicrobial diaphragm covers.
- Development of a reference information model and knowledgebase for electronic bloodstream infection detection.
- Colonization with Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant S. aureus among a sample of homeless individuals, Ohio.
- Policy implications of the society for healthcare epidemiology of America's research plan for reducing healthcare-associated infections.
- Assessing specific secondary ICD-9-CM codes as potential predictors of surgical site infections.
- An antimicrobial stewardship program's impact with rapid polymerase chain reaction methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus/S. aureus blood culture test in patients with S. aureus bacteremia.
- Guideline for the prevention and control of norovirus gastroenteritis outbreaks in healthcare settings.
- Functional status does not predict complicated clinical course in older adults in the emergency department with infection.
- The economics of antimicrobial stewardship: the current state of the art and applying the business case model.
- Enhanced surgical site infection surveillance following hysterectomy, vascular, and colorectal surgery.
- Disagreement between emergency physician and inpatient physician diagnosis of infection in older adults admitted from the emergency department.
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