Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)

Known as: Centers for Disease Control, CDC, Center for Disease Control and Prevention 
An agency of the US Public Health Service that serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental… (More)
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
Multidrug-resistant, extensively drug-resistant and pandrug-resistant bacteria: an international expert proposal for interim standard definitions for acquired resistance.
Many different definitions for multidrug-resistant (MDR), extensively drug-resistant (XDR) and pandrug-resistant (PDR) bacteria… (More)
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Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Characterizing extreme values of body mass index-for-age by using the 2000 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention growth charts.
BACKGROUND The 2000 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) growth charts included lambda-mu-sigma (LMS) parameters… (More)
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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Costs and Consequences of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Recommendations for Opt-Out HIV Testing
BACKGROUND The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently recommended opt-out HIV testing (testing… (More)
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2006
Highly Cited
2006
AHA/ACC guidelines for secondary prevention for patients with coronary and other atherosclerotic vascular disease: 2006 update endorsed by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
S ince the 2001 update of the American Heart Association (AHA)/American College of Cardiology (ACC) consensus statement on… (More)
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2003
Highly Cited
2003
Costs of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in the United States is a publication of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control , part of the Centers for Disease Control and…
Acknowledgments We acknowledge and appreciate the contributions of several CDC colleagues: Background Although most people… (More)
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Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Infection control - a problem for patient safety.
Nosocomial, or hospital-acquired, infections (more appropriately called health care–associated infections) are today by far the… (More)
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2000 growth charts for the United States: improvements to the 1977 National Center for Health Statistics version.
OBJECTIVE To present a clinical version of the 2000 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) growth charts and to compare… (More)
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Guidelines for the prevention of intravascular catheter-related infections. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
These guidelines have been developed for practitioners who insert catheters and for persons responsible for surveillance and… (More)
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Guidelines for the prevention of intravascular catheter-related infections. The Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.
These guidelines have been developed for practitioners who insert catheters and for persons responsible for surveillance and… (More)
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Guidelines for the prevention of intravascular catheter-related infections.
Naomi P. O'Grady,1 Mary Alexander,2 Lillian A. Burns,3 E. Patchen Dellinger,4 Jeffrey Garland,5 Stephen O. Heard,6 Pamela A… (More)
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