Environmental Infection | 8.11.17

A comparison of the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Guidelines for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infections (SSI) 2016 and...
Health Information Technology | 10.25.16

This article describes the primary data sources, data elements, and validation methods currently used in electronic surveillance systems (ESS) for...
Health Information Technology | 10.25.16

The goals of this study are to compare the results of an automated surveillance strategy using the new VAE definition...
Health Information Technology | 10.25.16

National efforts to promote an HER may offer solutions for future studies by providing more comprehensive data on HAIs and...
Health Information Technology | 10.25.16

The transmission and infection risk associated with multidrug-resistant organism (MDRO) carriers necessitates surveillance and tracking to provide proper contact precautions....
Health Information Technology | 10.25.16

The expanding number of mobile health applications (apps) holds potential to reduce and eliminate health care-associated infections (HAIs) in clinical...
Health Information Technology | 10.25.16

The aims of this study are to demonstrate the use of Twitter as a real-time method of Ebola outbreak surveillance...
Health Information Technology | 10.25.16

Although automated surveillance technology has been evolving for decades, adoption of these technologies is in a nascent state. The current...