title: Concise healthcare-associated infection reporting and benchmarking with minimal staff resources.
abstract: We report on intelligent information technology tools that produce fully-automated surveillance reports of high precision for 12 intensive care units (ICUs) without relevant time expenditure of infection control or ICU staff. This is accomplished by MONI-ICU, a computerized system for automated identification and continuous monitoring of ICU-associated infections, which makes surveillance data readily accessible and presents them in easily perceptible reporting format.
authors.affiliation: Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. walter.koller@meduniwien.ac.at
authors.forename: Walter
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Koller
authors.forename: Jeroen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: De Bruin
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Blacky
authors.forename: Harald
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mandl
authors.forename: Klaus-Peter
authors.initials: KP
authors.lastname: Adlassnig
mesh_terms: D001317:Austria / Q000453:epidemiology; D019985:Benchmarking / Q000379:methods; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003628:Database Management Systems; D018563:Disease Notification / Q000379:methods*; D057286:Electronic Health Records; D055991:Health Records, Personal; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D019221:Mandatory Reporting; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods*