Preliminary Assessment of an Automated Surveillance System for Infection Control

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 325-332

  Wright, Marc Oliver ^a   Perencevich, Eli N ^b   Novak, Christopher ^c   Hebden, Joan N ^a   Standiford, Harold C ^a   Harris, Anthony D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c Cereplex Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFEPIME; CEFTRIAXONE; GATIFLOXACIN; IMIPENEM; OXACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN; QUINOLONE; SULBACTAM; TAZOBACTAM; VANCOMYCIN;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CENTER; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; PREDICTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MARYLAND; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 1942420305     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502400     Document Type: Review

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