A comparison between national healthcare safety network laboratory-identified event reporting versus traditional surveillance for clostridium difficile infection

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 125-131

  Durkin, Michael J ^a,b,c   Baker, Arthur W ^a,b,c   Dicks, Kristen V ^a,b,c   Lewis, Sarah S ^a,b,c   Chen, Luke F ^a,b,c   Anderson, Deverick J ^a,b,c   Sexton, Daniel J ^a,b,c   Moehring, Rebekah W ^a,b,c,d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center ^*  (United States)

^d DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL ERROR; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENT DISEASE; STANDARDIZED INCIDENCE RATIO; VOLUNTARY REPORTING; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; LABORATORY INFORMATION SYSTEM; MICROBIOLOGY; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

CLINICAL LABORATORY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES;

EID: 84922728925     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2014.42     Document Type: Article

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