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Can routinely collected electronic health data be used to develop novel healthcare associated infection surveillance tools?

2013-01-01

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Background: Healthcare associated infections (HCAI) pose a significant burden to health systems both within the UK and internationally. Surveillance is an essential component to any infection control programme, however traditional surveillance systems are time consuming and costly. Large amounts of electronic routine data are collected within the English NHS, yet these are not currently exploited for HCAI surveill...

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Literature Corpus work: 23b1e543-4c46-546b-8a83-31835a308e15
DOI: 10.25560/17759

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