Journal Club: Developing a User-Friendly Report for Electronically Assisted Surveillance of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections

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• Personal Author:
  Davis J ; Estinville MF ; Hessels A
• Description:
  The article chosen for this Journal Club commentary describes the development and testing of a report format using automated data to report urinary catheter utilization and catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs). This research sought to address a gap in knowledge regarding the optimal display and content of data reports, communicating to diverse audiences, which used surveillance data from Department of Veterans Affairs' electronic health records. The specific research aim of this project was to develop and pilot test report formats deemed usable and trustworthy by the end user, and discover the best way to deliver to the ideal audience automated data, which is formatted and presented in a way that is acceptable to the end user. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Communicable Diseases Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Hospitals Occupational Health Safety Urine
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Journal Club Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infections Electronically Assisted Surveillance Electronic Health Records Health Care Hospital Equipment Infection Control Infection Prevention Medical Equipment Medical Records Medical Treatment Surveillance Urogenital System

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• ISSN:
  0196-6553
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  New Jersey ; New York ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  45
• Issue:
  8
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20053735
• Citation:
  Am J Infect Control 2017 Aug; 45(8):822-823
• Contact Point Address:
  James Davis, MSN, RN, CCRN, CIC, HEM, Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, 333 Market St, Harrisburg, PA 17101
• Email:
  jdavis@ecri.org
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2017
• NORA Priority Area:
  Healthcare and Social Assistance
• Performing Organization:
  Columbia University Health Sciences - New York
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20160901
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Infection Control
• End Date:
  20190831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:38cbf94acc425099c39d93fe646dbcd7083c69083484fab177165ead5ad6fb44b84e6f15b92fcdf95d22405861d171b77941f7067729b7bc3b2781906f8b8287
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/216446/cdc_216446_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 138.69 KB ]