Management of infection control associated with human cadavers

Young SE, Healing TD. Infection in the deceased: a survey of management (PDF, 62 KB). Commun Dis Rep CDR Rev 1995; 5(5):R69-R73.

Healing TD, Hoffman PN, Young SE. The infection hazards of human cadavers (PDF, 61 KB). Commun Dis Rep CDR Rev 1995; 5(5):R61-R68.

Bakhshi SS. Code of practice for funeral workers: managing infection risk and body bagging (PDF, 36 KB).Commun Dis Public Health 2001; 4(4):283-287.

Healthcare-Associated Infection

Crowcroft NS, et al. Mortality from methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in England and Wales: analysis of death certificates. BMJ. 2002; 325:1390-1.

Griffiths C, et al. Trends in MRSA in England and Wales: analysis of morbidity and mortality data for 1993-2002. Health Stat.Q. 2004; 21:15-22.

Data on death registrations, including those relating to MRSA and Clostridium difficile infection, can be found at the Office for National Statistics website.

HPA-ONS Data Linkage Programme and Confidential Study of Deaths following Healthcare-Associated Infection publications

Lamagni TL, Potz N, Powell D, Pebody R, Wilson J, Duckworth G. Mortality in patients with meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia, England 2004-2005. J Hosp Infect 2010; doi:10.1016/j.jhin.2010.07.015.

Potz N, Powell D, Lamagni T, Pebody R, Bridger D, Duckworth G. Probabilistic record linkage of infection records and death registrations: a tool to strengthen surveillance. Stat Commun Infect Dis 2010; 2:article 6.

HPA. National Confidential Study of Deaths Following Meticillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Infection (PDF, 1.2 MB). November 2007

HPA. National Confidential Study of Deaths following Healthcare-Associated Infection and linkage of surveillance and mortality data - first year update (PDF, 283 KB). Commun Dis Rep CDR Wkly [serial online]; 14th December 2006; 15(50): News

Health Protection Agency and Office for National Statistics. National Confidential Study of Deaths following Healthcare-Associated Infection & HPA-ONS Data Linkage Study. Year 1 report (01/08/05-31/07/06) (PDF, 199 KB). London: Health Protection Agency; September 2006.

N. Potz, et al. Development of a method to link infection and mortality data (PDF, 618 KB). [poster] Health Protection Agency Annual Conference; 2006 September 11-13; Warwick icon: PDF (617kB)

D. Bridger, et al. Methodology for the National Confidential Study of Deaths Following Healthcare-Associated Infection (PDF, 668 KB). [poster] Health Protection Agency Annual Conference; 2006 September 11-13; Warwick

HPA. New initiative to link surveillance and mortality data (PDF, 668 KB). Commun Dis Rep CDR Wkly [serial online]; 20th September 2005; 15(37): News