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Mapping Laboratory Reports to Illinois’ Extensively Drug-Resistant Organism Registry
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CRE are drug-resistant bacteria that have a mortality rate of up to 50% in those infected. Several clusters of CRE have been detected in Illinois, often in long-term acute care hospitals. In response, Illinois created the XDRO registry, a mandatory… read more -
Leveraging the Master Patient Index in Public Health Surveillance through Collaboration between Illinois Department of Public Health and the Illinois Health Information Exchange
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Meaningful Use (MU) Stage 2 public health reporting for Eligible Professionals (EPs) included a menu option for ambulatory syndromic surveillance. Review of currently existing models lead to a collaboration between the Illinois Health Information… read more -
Predicting Facility-Level Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) Incidence Based on Social Network Measures
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CRE are multidrug-resistant bacteria associated with up to 50 percent mortality in infected persons. CRE are increasingly problematic in Illinois healthcare facilities, especially long-term acute care hospitals (LTACHs); therefore, Illinois… read more -
Data Model for Initiatives to Monitor Exposure to Antimicrobials (DataMIME)
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Despite decades of attempts to promote judicious AU, the US has high rates of per-person antimicrobial consumption, and extremely high rates of carbapenem use. Such profligate use is a key factor in the high rate of antimicrobial-resistant… read more