Lean back and wait for the alarm? Testing an automated alarm system for nosocomial outbreaks to provide support for infection control professionals.

INTRODUCTION:Outbreaks of communicable diseases in hospitals need to be quickly detected in order to enable immediate control. The increasing digitalization of hospital data processing offers potential solutions for automated outbreak detection systems (AODS). Our goal was to assess a newly develope...

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Main Authors: Christin Schröder, Luis Alberto Peña Diaz, Anna Maria Rohde, Brar Piening, Seven Johannes Sam Aghdassi, Georg Pilarski, Norbert Thoma, Petra Gastmeier, Rasmus Leistner, Michael Behnke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227955