The HELP system and its application to infection control
| Autor: | John P. Burke, Lane E. Stevens, David C. Classen, Stanley L. Pestotnik, R.S. Evans |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
| Předmět: |
Microbiology (medical)
Hospital information system medicine.medical_specialty Quality management Quality Assurance Health Care MEDLINE Expert Systems Pharmacy medicine Information system Humans Infection control Antibiotic prophylaxis Cross Infection Infection Control Practitioners business.industry Medical record General Medicine medicine.disease Surgery Infectious Diseases Population Surveillance Hospital Information Systems Medical emergency business Forecasting |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Hospital Infection. 18:424-431 |
| ISSN: | 0195-6701 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0195-6701(91)90052-a |
| Popis: | The HELP system is a comprehensive hospital information system that is linked to an allied financial data base. The clinical data base integrates information from areas such as admitting, pharmacy, radiology, surgery, pathology, nursing, respiratory therapy, and the clinical laboratories, including microbiology. This allows for the creation of an electronic medical record that contains all the clinical and financial data for each patient. The HELP system combines both communication and advice features through the use of data- and time-driven algorithms. We have used the HELP system to automate the surveillance and analysis of hospital-acquired infections and to identify patients at high risk for nosocomial infection. The expert system features have also been used to suggest alternatives for patients receiving inappropriate antimicrobial therapy, to improve the timing of antibiotic prophylaxis in surgery, and to curtail unnecessarily prolonged prophylaxis. Automated hospital information systems such as HELP can facilitate the investigation of a broad range of infection control, quality improvement, and cost-containment issues. |
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