Dr. Shruti Gohil
Associate Medical Director, Epidemiology & Infection Prevention UCI Health
- Irvine CA
Dr. Shruti K. Gohil is an infectious disease specialist in Orange, California and is affiliated with one hospital.
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Education
Tufts University School of Medicine
MD
Affiliations
- Infectious Disease Society of America
- Society for Healthcare Epidemiologists of America
Media Appearances
Prompts in Computerized Order Entry Improve Antimicrobial Treatment for Skin, Soft Tissue Infections
Contagion Live online
2025-05-04
"In this trial, initial standard-spectrum antibiotic prescribing increased, suggesting growing acceptance of national guidance," observed Shruti Gohil, MD, MPH, Division of Infectious Diseases, [University of California] Irvine School of Medicine, and colleagues. "For those who continued to order extended-spectrum for low-risk patients, prompt recommendations encouraged switch to standard-spectrum antibiotics."
INSPIRE 3 Study Creates Reduction in Unnecessary Extended-Spectrum Antibiotics
Medscape online
2025-04-21
A new study has found that computer-assisted recommendations, coupled with targeted best practices, significantly reduce the use of extended-spectrum antibiotics, all without increasing admissions to intensive care units (ICUs) or prolonging hospital stays. The INSPIRE 3 study is the third of four trials conducted over the last 2 years by Shruti Gohil, MD, MPH, of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, California. … “The INSPIRE CPOE prompts provide real-time information about a patient’s absolute risk of infection due to antibiotic-resistant bacteria,” Gohil said.
Bundle prevents CLABSIs in nursing homes
Healio online
2025-02-17
“The volume of patients requiring complex health care needs after leaving the hospital is increasing nationally. This is only expected to grow as the overall number of elderly people increases,” Shruti K. Gohil, MD, MPH, assistant professor of infectious diseases and associate medical director of epidemiology and infection prevention at the University of California, Irvine, told Healio. … Gohil explained that although hospitals have “robust CLABSI prevention processes,” strategies to prevent these infections after patients leave the hospital with these devices are “underdeveloped.” This led Gohil and colleagues to evaluate the impact of a new CLABSI prevention bundle in nursing homes called SAFER Lines.
Norovirus cases are spiking this winter. Here's why — and what you need to know to protect yourself.
Yahoo News - Business Insider online
2025-01-06
Once someone becomes exposed to norovirus — which is spread through direct contact and can linger on surfaces for days or even weeks — they can become infected within a day or two. The symptoms of food poisoning, on the other hand, will typically present much faster than that, in a matter of hours, said Dr. Shruti Gohil, a professor and the associate medical director of epidemiology and infection prevention at the University of California, Irvine's School of Medicine.
Orange County Grapples With Summer COVID Wave
Voice of OC online
2024-08-05
Orange County is grappling with another Summer COVID-19 wave as the positivity rate climbs to over 18% – a spike not seen in some time. Yet it’s not impacting hospitals anywhere near the levels of the initial waves in 2020 and 2021…That’s because of widespread vaccinations and previous infections, said Dr. Shruti Gohil, an infectious disease doctor at UC Irvine’s Medical Center in Orange. “We are seeing more COVID positivity among those tested, but hospitalizations overall due to COVID alone are low. And probably because that’s the success of the vaccine and overall immunity,” said Gohil, who treats COVID patients and a host of others. … But now, massive testing efforts – along with neighborhood test centers – have largely dried up, notes UCI epidemiologist Daniel Parker. He also noted that at-home tests don’t get reported to state and county officials, which makes it difficult to determine what the actual positivity rate is. “But all clues show us there is a wave right now,” Parker said, noting the uptick in COVID presence in wastewater surveillance.
Algorithm-driven alerts help identify best antibiotic for patients with pneumonia, UTI
Healio - Infectious Disease News online
2024-05-02
Two studies assessing the use of algorithm-driven prompts meant to improve antibiotic selection for patients hospitalized with pneumonia or UTIs showed the prompts were effective, researchers found. ... “Antibiotic resistance, which occurs when germs like bacteria and fungi mutate to defeat the drugs designed to kill them, is a major public health threat,” Shruti K. Gohil, MD, MPH, assistant professor of infectious diseases at the University of California Irvine School of Medicine and associate medical director of epidemiology and infection prevention in the Infectious Diseases School of Medicine, told Healio, adding that data show that 40% to 50% of patients hospitalized with pneumonia receive broad-spectrum antibiotics when they do not need them.
Articles
Impact of Policies on the Rise in Sepsis Incidence, 2000–2010
Clinical Infectious DiseasesShruti K. Gohil, Chenghua Cao, Michael Phelan, Thomas Tjoa, Chanu Rhee, Richard Platt, Susan S. Huang
2016
Sepsis hospitalizations have increased dramatically in the last decade. It is unclear whether this represents an actual rise in sepsis illness or improved capture by coding. We evaluated the impact of Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) guidance after newly introduced sepsis codes and medical severity diagnosis-related group (MS-DRG) systems on sepsis trends.
Marked reduction in compliance with central line insertion practices (CLIP) when accounting for missing CLIP data and incomplete line capture
American Journal of Infection ControlSK Scott, SK Gohil, K Quan, SS Huang
2016
Adherence to central line insertion practices can significantly reduce infections and is used as a hospital benchmark for quality. However, current national standards for central line insertion practices (CLIP) compliance calculation do not include missing CLIP forms. We found adherence rates significantly decreased when accounting for all lines at an academic medical center.
Healthcare Workers and Post-Elimination Era Measles: Lessons on Acquisition and Exposure Prevention
Clinical Infectious DiseasesShruti K. Gohil, Sandra Okubo, Stephen Klish, Linda Dickey, Susan S. Huang, Matthew Zahn
2016
When caring for measles patients, N95 respirator use by healthcare workers (HCWs) with documented immunity is not uniformly required or practiced. In the setting of increasingly common measles outbreaks and provider inexperience with measles, HCWs face increased risk for occupational exposures. Meanwhile, optimal infection prevention responses to healthcare-associated exposures are loosely defined. We describe measles acquisition among HCWs despite prior immunity and lessons from healthcare-associated exposure investigations during a countywide outbreak.
Impact of Hospital Population Case-Mix, Including Poverty, on Hospital All-Cause and Infection-Related 30-Day Readmission Rates
Clinical Infectious DiseasesShruti K. Gohil, Rupak Datta, Chenghua Cao, Michael J. Phelan, Vinh Nguyen, Armaan A. Rowther, Susan S. Huang
2015
Reducing hospital readmissions, including preventable healthcare-associated infections, is a national priority. The proportion of readmissions due to infections is not well-understood. Better understanding of hospital risk factors for readmissions and infection-related readmissions may help optimize interventions to prevent readmissions.
Regulatory Mandates for Sepsis Care — Reasons for Caution
The New England Journal of MedicineChanu Rhee, M.D., Shruti Gohil, M.D., M.P.H., and Michael Klompas, M.D., M.P.H.
2014
Sepsis, the syndrome of dysregulated inflammation that occurs with severe infection, affects millions of people worldwide each year. Multiple studies suggest that the incidence of sepsis is dramatically increasing. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), for example, sepsis rates doubled between 2000 and 2008.1 In 2010, sepsis was the 11th leading cause of death in the United States,2 and in 2011, it was the single most expensive condition treated in hospitals.
