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An expert system for culture-based infection control surveillance.

Year: 1993

Type: article

Abstract: Hospital-acquired infections represent a significant cause of prolonged inpatient days and additional hospital charges. We describe an expert system, called GERMWATCHER, which applies the Centers for Disease Control's National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance culture-based criteria for detecting nosocomial infections. GERMWATCHER has been deployed at Barnes Hospital, a large tertiary-care teaching hospital, since February 1993. We describe the Barnes Hospital infection control environment, the expert system design, and a predeployment performance evaluation. We then compare our system to other efforts in computer-based infection control.

Source: PubMed Central

Authors: M G Kahn, S A Steib, V J Fraser, W C Dunagan

Institution: Washington University in St. Louis

Language: English

Topic: Infection Control in Healthcare

Subfield: Infectious Diseases

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, U.S. National Library of Medicine

Awards: RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING TOOLS, TIME AND CONTEXT IN MEDICAL DATABASES, HUMAN YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME LIBRARY DATABASE