Using electronic medical records to increase the efficiency of catheter-associated urinary tract infection surveillance for National Health and Safety Network reporting

American Journal of Infection Control

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Shepard, John ^a   Hadhazy, Eric ^a   Frederick, John ^b   Nicol, Spencer ^c   Gade, Padmaja ^a   Cardon, Andrew ^c   Wilson, Jorge ^a   Vetteth, Yohan ^a   Madison, Sasha ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Veterans Administration ^*  (United States)

^c Health Catalyst   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated surveillance; CAUTI; CAUTI surveillance; Cost reduction; Electronic surveillance; Infection control surveillance

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CATHETER ASSOCIATED URINARY TRACT INFECTION; CATHETER INFECTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRODUCTIVITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

AUTOMATED SURVEILLANCE; CAUTI; CAUTI SURVEILLANCE; COST REDUCTION; ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE; INFECTION CONTROL SURVEILLANCE;

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; CALIFORNIA; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 84896853899     PISSN: 01966553     EISSN: 15273296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2013.12.005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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