A Web-Based, Hospital-Wide Health Care-Associated Bloodstream Infection Surveillance and Classification System: Development and Evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Surveillance of health care-associated infections is an essential component of infection prevention programs, but conventional systems are labor intensive and performance dependent.

Objective

To develop an automatic surveillance and classification system for health care-associated bloodstream infection (HABSI), and to evaluate its performance by comparing it with a conventional infection control personnel (ICP)-based surveillance system.

Methods

We developed a Web-based system that was integrated into the medical information system of a 2200-bed teaching hospital in Taiwan. The system automatically detects and classifies HABSIs.

Results

In this study, the number of computer-detected HABSIs correlated closely with the number of HABSIs detected by ICP

SUBMITTER: Tseng YJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4705006 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature