Hospital-onset bacteraemia and fungaemia as a novel automated surveillance indicator: results from four European university hospitals, 2018 to 2022.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUNDConventional manual surveillance of healthcare-associated infections is labour-intensive and therefore often restricted to areas with high-risk patients. Fully automated surveillance of hospital-onset bacteraemia and fungaemia (HOB) may facilitate hospital-wide surveillance.AIMTo develop an algorithm and minimal dataset (MDS) required for automated surveillance of HOB and apply it to real-life routine data in four European hospitalsMETHODSThrough consensus discussion, a HOB definition with MDS suitable for automated surveillance was developed and applied in a retrospective multicentre observational study including all adult patients admitted to hospitals in the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland (2018-22). Annual HOB rates were calculated per 1,000 patient days for hosp

SUBMITTER: Aghdassi SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12180293 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature