Using linked electronic health records to report healthcare-associated infections.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Reporting of strategic healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs) to Public Health England is mandatory for all acute hospital trusts in England, via a web-based HCAI Data Capture System (HCAI-DCS).

Aim

Investigate the feasibility of automating the current, manual, HCAI reporting using linked electronic health records (linked-EHR), and assess its level of accuracy.

Methods

All data previously submitted through the HCAI-DCS by the Oxford University Hospitals infection control (IC) team for methicillin-resistant and methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA, MSSA), Clostridium difficile, and Escherichia coli, through March 2017 were downloaded and compared to outputs created from linked-EHR, with detailed comparisons between 2013-2017.

Findings

SUBMITTER: Quan TP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6221334 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature