Development and Testing of Health Information Exchange Methods for Alerting Infection Preventionists About Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms: Making Unstructured Microbiology Culture Data Usable

Recent outbreaks of carbapenem-resistant gram-negative bacteria among hospitalized patients elicited national attention and underscored the danger of healthcare-associated infections. Whenever patients visit more than one hospital, a multidrug-resistant organism (MDRO) may spread. Within hospitals,...

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Published in:American journal of infection control 2014-06, Vol.42 (6), p.S62-S63
Main Authors: Rosenman, Marc, MD, Szucs, Kinga, MD, Finnell, S. Maria E., MD, MS, Khokhar, Shahid, Shepherd, David, MD, MBA, MS, Friedlin, Jeff, DO, Lemmon, Larry, Egg, James, Li, Xiaochun, PhD, Kho, Abel, MD, MS
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Disease control
Disease transmission
Gram-negative bacteria
Infection Control
Infectious Disease
Information sharing
Microbiology
Multidrug resistant organisms
Nosocomial infections
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Summary:Recent outbreaks of carbapenem-resistant gram-negative bacteria among hospitalized patients elicited national attention and underscored the danger of healthcare-associated infections. Whenever patients visit more than one hospital, a multidrug-resistant organism (MDRO) may spread. Within hospitals, spread is also a scourge. Our goal is to build a regional system that parses microbiology culture data to make it usable for decision-support, and then alerts hospitals when a patient with a history of MDRO is admitted.
ISSN:0196-6553
1527-3296
DOI:10.1016/j.ajic.2014.03.153