Computer Informatics for Infection Control.
Infect Dis Clin North Am
; 35(3): 755-769, 2021 09.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1340082
ABSTRACT
Computer informatics have the potential to improve infection control outcomes in surveillance, prevention, and public health. Surveillance activities include surveillance of infections, device use, and facility/ward outbreak detection and investigation. Prevention activities include awareness of multidrug-resistant organism carriage on admission, identification of high-risk individuals or populations, reducing device use, and antimicrobial stewardship. Enhanced communication with public health and other health care facilities across networks includes automated electronic communicable disease reporting, syndromic surveillance, and regional outbreak detection. Computerized public health networks may represent the next major evolution in infection control. This article reviews the use of informatics for infection control.
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Medical Informatics
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Disease Outbreaks
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Infection Control
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Public Health Surveillance
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Infect Dis Clin North Am
Journal subject:
Communicable Diseases
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
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