Faculty Chamber Players

Faculty Chamber Players features violinists Helen Kim and Kenn Wagner, violist Cathy Lynn, cellist Charae Krueger with special guest, cellist Brad Ritchie.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/1960/thumbnail.jp

Faculty String Trio and Friends

Kennesaw State University School of Music presents: Faculty String Trio and Friends.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/1552/thumbnail.jp

Atlanta Chamber Players

KSU School of Music presents Atlanta Chamber Players.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/1213/thumbnail.jp

Faculty String Trio and Friends

KSU School of Music presents Faculty String Trio and Friends.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/1330/thumbnail.jp

How do we evaluate the cost of nosocomial infection? The ECONI protocol: an incidence study with nested case-control evaluating cost and quality of life

Introduction Healthcare-associated or nosocomial infection (HAI) is distressing to patients and costly for the National Health Service (NHS). With increasing pressure to demonstrate cost-effectiveness of interventions to control HAI and notwithstanding the risk from antimicrobial-resistant infections, there is a need to understand the incidence rates of HAI and costs incurred by the health system and for patients themselves. Methods and analysis The Evaluation of Cost of Nosocomial Infection study (ECONI) is an observational incidence survey with record linkage and a nested case-control study that will include postdischarge longitudinal follow-up and qualitative interviews. ECONI will be conducted in one large teaching hospital and one district general hospital in NHS Scotland. The case mix of these hospitals reflects the majority of overnight admissions within Scotland. An incidence survey will record all HAI cases using standard case definitions. Subsequent linkage to routine data sets will provide information on an admission cohort which will be grouped into HAI and non-HAI cases. The case-control study will recruit eligible patients who develop HAI and twice that number without HAI as controls. Patients will be asked to complete five questionnaires: the first during their stay, and four others during the year following discharge from their recruitment admission (1, 3, 6 and 12 months). Multiple data collection methods will include clinical case note review; patient-reported outcome; linkage to electronic health records and qualitative interviews. Outcomes collected encompass infection types; morbidity and mortality; length of stay; quality of life; healthcare utilisation; repeat admissions and postdischarge prescribing. Ethics and dissemination The study has received a favourable ethical opinion from the Scotland A Research Ethics Committee (reference 16/SS/0199). All publications arising from this study will be published in open-access peer-reviewed journal. Lay-person summaries will be published on the ECONI website. Trial registration number NCT03253640; Pre-results

Faculty Chamber Players with guest artist Brad Ritchie, cello

KSU Faculty Chamber Players features members of the KSU School of Music faculty performing repertoire for various groupings of musicians. This performance will include Schubert\u27s beloved Cello Quintet with Atlanta Symphony Orchestra cellist Brad Ritchie and André Caplet\u27s The Masque of Red Death featuring Elisabeth Remy Johnson, Atlanta Symphony Principal Harpist and KSU faculty member.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/2026/thumbnail.jp

Epidemiology of dengue in a high-income country: a case study in Queensland, Australia

Background: Australia is one of the few high-income countries where dengue transmission regularly occurs. Dengue is a major health threat in North Queensland (NQ), where the vector Aedes aegypti is present. Whether NQ should be considered as a dengue endemic or epidemic region is an ongoing debate. To help address this issue, we analysed the characteristics of locally-acquired (LA) and imported dengue cases in NQ through time and space. We describe the epidemiology of dengue in NQ from 1995 to 2011, to identify areas to target interventions. We also investigated the timeliness of notification and identified high-risk areas. Methods: Data sets of notified cases and viraemic arrivals from overseas were analysed. We developed a time series based on the LA cases and performed an analysis to capture the relationship between incidence rate and demographic factors. Spatial analysis was used to visualise incidence rates through space and time. Results: Between 1995 and 2011, 93.9% of reported dengue cases were LA, mainly in the 'Cairns and Hinterland' district; 49.7% were males, and the mean age was 38.0 years old. The sources of imported cases (6.1%) were Indonesia (24.6%), Papua New Guinea (23.2%), Thailand (13.4%), East Timor (8.9%) and the Philippines (6.7%), consistent with national data. Travellers importing dengue were predominantly in the age groups 30-34 and 45-49 years old, whereas the age range of patients who acquired dengue locally was larger. The number of LA cases correlated with the number of viraemic importations. Duration of viraemia of public health importance was positively correlated with the delay in notification. Dengue incidence varied over the year and was typically highest in summer and autumn. However, dengue activity has been reported in winter, and a number of outbreaks resulted in transmission year-round. Conclusions: This study emphasizes the importance of delay in notification and consequent duration of viraemia of public health importance for dengue outbreak duration. It also highlights the need for targeted vector control programmes and surveillance of travellers at airports as well as regularly affected local areas. Given the likely increase in dengue transmission with climate change, endemicity in NQ may become a very real possibility

Faculty Recital: Faculty String Trio and Friends

KSU School of Music presents Faculty String Trio and Friends.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/1204/thumbnail.jp