Showing papers on "Nosocomial infection control published in 1984"
TL;DR: The magnitude of the problem of nosocomial infection in Latin America is worse than in industrialized countries; however, it has not been fully recognized, and at the moment several countries have started to show interest in the problem.
9 citations
TL;DR: This system, which replaces a manual one that depended on “needle sort” data cards, is designed to provide for entry of infection data that have been collected onto abstracting forms and decision support in the prospective analysis of suspicious infection rates or trends.
Abstract: This paper describes the implementation of a computerized nosocomial infection control system for a 500-bed tertiary-care teaching hospital. It is implemented on a minicomputer that uses the relational data base management system INGRES, which is marketed by Relational Technology, Inc. This system, which replaces a manual one that depended on “needle sort” data cards, is designed to provide for entry of infection data that have been collected onto abstracting forms; decision support in the prospective analysis of suspicious infection rates or trends; generation of monthly, on-demand, and annual infection rate reports; retrospective interrogation and analysis of infection data for rates and trends that may explain or clearly indicate the sources of inhospital (nosocomial) infections; updating of infection records as additional infection-related data become available and known to the hospital's infection control team; and ad hoc analysis and comparisons between data on control and infected patients, both prospectively and retrospectively.
2 citations