Fully automated surveillance of healthcare-associated infections with MONI-ICU: A breakthrough in clinical infection surveillance

Applied Clinical Informatics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 365-372

  Blacky, A ^a   Mandl, H ^b   Adlassnig, K P ^a,b   Koller, W ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Medexter Healthcare GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Fully automated surveillance; Healthcare associated infections; Intensive care unit; MONI ICU; Time expenditure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865075713     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18690327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2011-03-RA-0022     Document Type: Article

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