Increasing the reliability of fully automated surveillance for central line–associated bloodstream infections

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1396-1400

  Snyders, Rachael E ^a   Goris, Ashleigh J ^b   Gase, Kathleen A ^a   Leone, Carole L ^a   Doherty, Joshua A ^a   Woeltje, Keith F ^a,c  

^a BJC HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^b MISSOURI BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATED ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CATHETER INFECTION; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ALGORITHM; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; CROSS INFECTION; FACTUAL DATABASE; HOSPITAL; ILLINOIS; INFECTION CONTROL; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MISSOURI; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SEPSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BACTEREMIA; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CROSS INFECTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS APPLICATIONS; MISSOURI; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SEPSIS;

EID: 84958529745     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2015.199     Document Type: Article

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