Natural language processing for real-time catheter-associated urinary tract infection surveillance: Results of a pilot implementation trial

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1004-1010

  Branch Elliman, Westyn ^a,b   Strymish, Judith ^c,d   Kudesia, Valmeek ^c,e   Rosen, Amy K ^c,f   Gupta, Kalpana ^c,f  

^a VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center   (United States)

^f BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CATHETER ASSOCIATED URINARY TRACT INFECTION; CATHETER INFECTION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMERGENCY CARE; GOLD STANDARD; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INDWELLING URINARY CATHETER; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; TIME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE; VITAL SIGN; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DOCUMENTATION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; HEALTH SURVEY; INDWELLING CATHETER; PILOT STUDY; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

ALGORITHMS; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DOCUMENTATION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PILOT PROJECTS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 84958550378     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2015.122     Document Type: Article

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