Electronically assisted surveillance systems of healthcare-associated infections: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT: BackgroundSurveillance of healthcare-associated infections (HAI) is the basis of each infection control programme and, in case of acute care hospitals, should ideally include all hospital wards, medical specialties as well as all types of HAI. Traditional surveillance is labour intensive and electronically assisted surveillance systems (EASS) hold the promise to increase efficiency.ObjectivesTo give insight in the performance characteristics of different approaches to EASS and the quality of the studies designed to evaluate them.MethodsIn this systematic review, online databases were searched and studies that compared an EASS with a traditional surveillance method were included. Two different indicators were extracted from each study, one regarding the quality of design (including reportin

SUBMITTER: Streefkerk HRA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6976884 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature