Electronic surveillance for healthcare-associated central line-associated bloodstream infections outside the intensive care unit

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1086-1090

  Woeltje, Keith F ^a,b   McMullen, Kathleen M ^c   Butler, Anne M ^d   Goris, Ashleigh J ^e   Doherty, Joshua A ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BJC HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^e Progress West Health Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CULTURE; CATHETER INFECTION; DATA BASE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSS INFECTION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS;

EID: 80054850003     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/662181     Document Type: Review

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