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Clinical Infectious Diseases
New clinical infectious diseases research reported from Harvard University, Medical Department
May 26th, 2009
According to recent research from the United States, "Health care providers, quality advocates, consumers, and legislators are increasingly focused on the prevention of health care-associated infections. Accurate surveillance is essential to identify areas for improvement and to measure the impact of infection prevention initiatives." "Conventional surveillance definitions, however, are complicated, costly to apply, and prone to both intentional and unintentional misclassification. Algorithmic analysis of electronic health data is a promising alternative to conventional surveillance. Algorithms that seek combinations of diagnosis codes, microbiological analysis results,...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-05-26)
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