Development and validation of a semi-automated surveillance system-lowering the fruit for non-ventilator-associated hospital-acquired pneumonia (nvHAP) prevention.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES:Conducting manual surveillance of non-ventilator-associated hospital-acquired pneumonia (nvHAP) using ECDC (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control) surveillance criteria is very resource intensive. We developed and validated a semi-automated surveillance system for nvHAP, and describe nvHAP incidence and aetiology at our hospital. METHODS:We applied an automated classification algorithm mirroring ECDC definition criteria to distinguish patients 'not at risk' from patients 'at risk' for suffering from nvHAP. 'At risk'-patients were manually screened for nvHAP. For validation, we applied the reference standard of full manual evaluation to three validation samples comprising 2091 patients. RESULTS:Among the 39 519 University Hospital Zurich inpatient discharges in 2017,

SUBMITTER: Wolfensberger A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7128786 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature