Implementing automated surveillance for tracking Clostridium difficile infection at multiple healthcare facilities.
2012
Automated surveillance utilizing electronically available data has been found to be accurate and save time. An automated CDI surveillance algorithm was validated at four CDC Prevention Epicenters 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.
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