Designing surveillance for noninfectious outcomes of medical care.
We present basic information that a hospital epidemiologist needs when designing a surveillance system for noninfectious adverse outcomes of care. Specific topics reflect key characteristics of such a surveillance system: the purpose, rationale, priorities, definitions, data collection tools, data collection, analysis and reporting, and validation.
Massanari
R M
RM
Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA.
Wilkerson
K
K
Swartzendruber
S
S
D016907:Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting Systems; D015982:Bias; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014481:United States