Healthcare-associated infection surveillance and bedside alerts

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 198, Issue , 2014, Pages 71-78

  Adlassnig, Klaus Peter ^a,b   Berger, Angelika ^c   Koller, Walter ^a   Blacky, Alexander ^a   Mandl, Harald ^b   Unterasinger, Lukas ^c   Rappelsberger, Andrea ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Medexter Healthcare GmbH   (Austria)

^c UNIV KLIN KINDER JUGENDHEILKUNDE   (Austria)

Author keywords

alerts; early detection; Healthcare associated infections; infection control; intensive care unit; quality benchmarking; surveillance

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; QUALITY CONTROL; SPACE SURVEILLANCE;

ALERT CRITERIA; ALERTS; AUTOMATED APPROACH; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTIONS; CO-EVOLUTION; DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROLS; INFECTION CONTROL; NOSOCOMIAL INFECTION;

MONITORING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUSTRIA; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CROSS INFECTION; DATA MINING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SCREENING; PROCEDURES; REMINDER SYSTEM; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUSTRIA; CROSS INFECTION; DATA MINING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEONATAL SCREENING; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REMINDER SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE; UNITED STATES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84903691237     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-397-1-71     Document Type: Conference Paper

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