Emerg Infect DiseidEmerging Infectious Diseases1080-60401080-6059Centers for Disease Control103411862640757Research ArticleApplication of data mining to intensive care unit microbiologic data.MoserS. A.moser@uab.eduJonesW. T.BrossetteS. E.The University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35233-7331, USA.May-Jun199953454457

We describe refinements to and new experimental applications of the Data Mining Surveillance System (DMSS), which uses a large electronic health-care database for monitoring emerging infections and antimicrobial resistance. For example, information from DMSS can indicate potentially important shifts in infection and antimicrobial resistance patterns in the intensive care units of a single health-care facility.