Case ascertainment of a potential centrally-implemented, automated system for national surveillance of healthcare-associated infections, England, 2016 to 2023.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUNDMandatory reporting of healthcare-associated infections (HCAI) in England is conducted locally by acute hospital groups and can be a large burden on healthcare staff.AIMWe aimed to determine the case ascertainment of a potential centrally-implemented, automated HCAI surveillance system in England using preexisting data feeds at the UK Health Security Agency.METHODSWe compared monthly case numbers submitted between 1 April 2016 and 31 March 2023 by acute hospital groups (locally-implemented surveillance) to routinely-collected laboratory and hospital encounter records (centrally-implemented surveillance) for all infections under mandatory surveillance in England. Since laboratories can serve multiple hospitals, we compared several methods of assigning laboratory-confirmed cases to

SUBMITTER: Cregan J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12555115 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature