Electronic surveillance systems increase efficiency
Briefings on Infection Control, August 1, 2009
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The demands on today’s IP are extensive. In addition to managing and educating frontline staff members, IPs are asked to conduct risk assessments for a variety of infections, initiate facilitywide goals, and stay on top of IC measures within their facilities.
However, doing so requires a tremendous amount of infection data tracking, whether it’s by patients, by infection, or by unit. Before elaborate computer software became available to medical facilities, IPs had to go through microbiology reports by hand, manually sorting and calculating rates and trends, says Joan Hebden, RN, MS, CIC, director of IC at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore and author of “Leveraging Surveillance Technology to Benefit the Practice and Profession of Infection Control,” published in the April 2008 American Journal of Infection Control.
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