Accurate documentation of the use of invasive devices, such as urinary and central line catheters, is important to track potential catheter-associated infections.
Real-time identification of device infections allows practitioners to initiate timely apparent-cause analyses, therefore allowing rapid improvement of practice. For this reason, it was crucial to ensure our institution's mechanism to capture possible catheter-associated infections is validated after the adoption of a new electronic medical record system.
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Quijano Rondan BR, Stachel A, Phillips M. Are you the author?
New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY.
Reference: Am J Infect Control. 2015 Feb 13. pii: S0196-6553(15)00005-X.
doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2014.12.025
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 25687357