Automated surveillance of healthcare-associated infections: State of the art

Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 425-431

  Sips, Meander E ^a   Bonten, Marc J M ^a   Van Mourik, Maaike S M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

automated surveillance; electronic health records; healthcare information technology; healthcare associated infections; routine care data

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CASE FINDING; DECISION TREE; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MACHINE LEARNING; REVIEW; CROSS INFECTION; HEALTH SURVEY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ALGORITHMS; CROSS INFECTION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 85021767773     PISSN: 09517375     EISSN: 14736527     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QCO.0000000000000376     Document Type: Review

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