Infection control and hospital epidemiology : the official journal of the Society of Hospital Epidemiologists of America
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Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol · Jun 2014
Accuracy of electronic surveillance of catheter-associated urinary tract infection at an academic medical center.
To develop and validate a methodology for electronic surveillance of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs). ⋯ The electronic surveillance methodology had a high NPV and a low PPV compared with the reference standard, indicating a role of the electronic algorithm in screening data sets to exclude cases. However, the PPV markedly improved compared with the reference standard adjusted for misclassification, suggesting a future role in surveillance with improvements in EHRs.