Improving containment and prevention strategies using a patient transfer network representative of patients with multidrug-resistant organisms.

Octaria R, Deppen S, Chan A, Slaughter JC, Talley P, Slayton RB, Rebeiro PF, Kainer MA. Improving containment and prevention strategies using a patient transfer network representative of patients with multidrug-resistant organisms. Infection control and hospital epidemiology. 2025 Jun 23. 1-9. PMID: 40548355 [PubMed] PMCID: PMC12410890 NIHMSID: NIHMS2105929.

Abstract

Interfacility patient transfers contribute to the regional spread of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs). We evaluated whether transfer patterns of inpatients with similar characteristics to carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) case-patients (CRE surrogates) better reflect hospital-level CRE burden than traditionally used populations.