Lean back and wait for the alarm? Testing an automated alarm system for nosocomial outbreaks to provide support for infection control professionals.
Christin SchröderLuis Alberto Peña DiazAnna Maria RohdeBrar PieningSeven Johannes Sam AghdassiGeorg PilarskiNorbert ThomaPetra GastmeierRasmus LeistnerMichael BehnkePublished in: PloS one (2020)
AODS for hospitals based on routine microbiological data is feasible and can provide relevant benefits for infection control teams. It offers in-time automated notification of suspected pathogen clusters especially for sporadically occurring pathogens. However, outbreaks of endemically detected pathogens need further individual pathogen-specific and setting-specific adjustments.