Emerging Infectious Diseases, marc-april 2001;7(2):212-6
Autores:

Richard Platt, Deborah S. Yokoe, Kenneth E. Sands, and the CDC Eastern
Massachusetts Prevention Epicenter Investigators

Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women?s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Abstract:

Automated data, especially from pharmacy and administrative claims, are available for much of the U.S. population and might substantially improve both inpatient and postdischarge surveillance for surgical site infections complicating selected procedures, while reducing the resources required. Potential improvements include better sensitivity, less susceptibility to interobserver variation, more uniform availability of data, more precise estimates of infection rates, and better adjustment for patients? coexisting illness.
Platt, Richard ... [et al.]