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At the national reference center for surveillance in Germany a project for the surveillance of nosocomial infections (Krankenhaus-Infektions- Surveillance-System - hospital infection surveillance system - KISS) was developed. Participants of this project are 475 intensive care units and surgical departments in the entire Federal Republic. The authors concentrate in the paper on the introduction of a IT system for the surveillance of nosocomial infections. The applications and software modules, which are important for the system, are described. Data are collected by an eCRF based surveillance program. The entered data are administered and processed in a central data base. The participants get periodically a statistic evaluation of their data.
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Behnke, M., Eckmanns, T., Rüden, H. (2002). Implementation of an IT System for the Support of a Hospital Infection Surveillance System. In: Colosimo, A., Sirabella, P., Giuliani, A. (eds) Medical Data Analysis. ISMDA 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2526. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36104-9_20
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