Abstract
Automated systems can facilitate surveillance for health care–associated infections.
The New York Antimicrobial Resistance Project (NYARP) electronically monitors trends
in bloodstream infections from 6 medical centers in New York, NY. To validate NYARP's
data, episodes of health care–associated bloodstream infections detected by this system
were compared with those obtained by an infection control practitioner performing
an unrelated study in 2 participating neonatal intensive care departments. The sensitivity
(84%), specificity (99%), and positive (84%) and negative (99%) predictive values
of NYARP were excellent when coagulase-negative staphylococcal bloodstream infections
were removed.
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Footnotes
☆Supported by National Institutes of Health grant 1RO1 NR05197-01, “Staff Hand Hygiene and Nosocomial Infections in Neonates.”
☆Presented in abstract form at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America in Salt Lake City, Utah, on April 6-9, 2002.
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© 2004 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
