Abstract:BackgroundHealthcare-associated infections (HAI) are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality for patients and continue to be an area of focus for public health programs. In the era of mandatory reporting, hospital infection prevention and control (IPC) departments are responsible for HAI data collection and management. Enumeration of infection and denominator data is often a manual and time-intensive process, which increases the potential for errors. In 2014, IPC and data analytics departments partnered… Show more
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