电子健康记录能有效确认艰难梭菌感染的危险

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EHRs effectively identified risk for C. difficile in patientsZilberberg MD. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2011;[published online ahead of print June 1, 2011].

Electronic health records, or EHRs, may help to determine patients’ risk for Clostridium difficile infection by age and community-onset, nonhospital-associated prevalence upon admission, according to new findings published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
电子健康记录能有效确认艰难梭菌感染的危险。
“As the practice of interhospital comparisons becomes more common, it will be important to improve methods for risk stratification of CDI rates,” the researchers wrote. “Within this context, electronic surveillance, if feasible and accurate, may be an attractive way to track care delivery and its outcomes within our hospitals.”

因为医院间的比较越来越常见，因此EHR的方法能够用于医院间CDI危险分层分析。

L. Clifford McDonald, MD, FACP, chief of the Prevention and Response Branch of the CDC, and colleagues assessed risk-stratification methods for public reporting of health care-associated infections among patients aged 18 years or older with nonrecurrent CDI across 85 hospitals between January 2007 and June 2008.
Higher rates of HO-CDI (P<.0001) were associated with older age, higher CO-NHA prevalence on admission, and increased C. difficile testing intensity, the researchers wrote.