Implementing Automated Surveillance for Tracking Clostridium difficile Infection at Multiple Healthcare Facilities

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• Alternative Title:
  Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
• Personal Author:
  Dubberke, Erik R. ; Nyazee, Humaa A. ; Yokoe, Deborah S. ; Mayer, Jeanmarie ; Stevenson, Kurt B. ; Mangino, Julie E. ; Khan, Yosef M. ; Fraser, Victoria J.
• Corporate Authors:
  CDC Prevention Epicenters Program
• Description:
  Automated surveillance using electronically available data has been found to be accurate and save time. An automated Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) surveillance algorithm was validated at 4 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Epicenter hospitals. Electronic surveillance was highly sensitive, specific, and showed good to excellent agreement for hospital-onset; community-onset, study facility-associated; indeterminate; and recurrent CDI.
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Adult Algorithms Article Automation Clostridium Difficile Cross Infection Electronic Health Records Enterocolitis, Pseudomembranous Feces Health Facilities Humans Medical Records Systems, Computerized Middle Aged Sensitivity And Specificity Sentinel Surveillance Young Adult

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• Source:
  Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 33(3):305-308.
• Pubmed ID:
  22314071
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC3649760
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  5U01C1000333/PHS HHS/United States ; 5U01CI000328/CI/NCPDCID CDC HHS/United States ; 5U01CI000334/CI/NCPDCID CDC HHS/United States ; 5U01CI000344/CI/NCPDCID CDC HHS/United States ; K01AI065808/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States ; K23 AI065806/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States ; K23AI065806/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States ; K24AI06779401/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States ; L30 AI062141/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States ; UR8/CCU715087-06/1/PHS HHS/United States
• Name as Subject:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Volume:
  33
• Issue:
  3
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:87c671046ac260a45b343d47b27e441c0dd3fbb413b4bd9f0d80fd256f93437a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/33556/cdc_33556_DS1.pdf
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