Automated surveillance for healthcare-associated infections: Opportunities for improvement

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 85-93

  Van Mourik, Maaike S M ^a   Troelstra, Annet ^a   Van Solinge, Wouter W ^a   Moons, Karel G M ^a   Bonten, Marc J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

electronic; healthcare associated infection; methodology; prediction; surveillance

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CATHETER INFECTION; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERAL INFECTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

ELECTRONIC; HEALTHCARE-ASSOCIATED INFECTION; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION; SURVEILLANCE;

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; AUTOMATION; CROSS INFECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; HUMANS;

EID: 84878829762     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cit185     Document Type: Article

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