2024
The National Healthcare Safety Network’s digital quality measures: CDC’s automated measures for surveillance of patient safety
Shehab N, Alschuler L, McILvenna S, Gonzaga Z, Laing A, deRoode D, Dantes R, Betz K, Zheng S, Abner S, Stutler E, Geimer R, Benin A. The National Healthcare Safety Network’s digital quality measures: CDC’s automated measures for surveillance of patient safety. Journal Of The American Medical Informatics Association 2024, 31: 1199-1205. PMID: 38563821, PMCID: PMC11031211, DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocae064.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNational Healthcare Safety NetworkFast Healthcare Interoperability ResourcesPublic health surveillancePatient safetyHealth surveillanceHealthcare facility-onset Clostridioides difficile infectionPrevent patient harmQuality measuresBurden of reportingImprove data collectionPatient harmInteroperability ResourcesPublic healthSafety NetworkHealthData collectionValidity of dataClostridioides difficile infectionVenous thromboembolismCollaborative programSurveillanceNationalHealthcareHarmIncreasing speed
2001
An Outbreak of Travel-Associated Legionnaires Disease and Pontiac Fever: The Need for Enhanced Surveillance of Travel-Associated Legionellosis in the United States
Benin A, Benson R, Arnold K, Fiore A, Cook P, Williams L, Fields B, Besser R. An Outbreak of Travel-Associated Legionnaires Disease and Pontiac Fever: The Need for Enhanced Surveillance of Travel-Associated Legionellosis in the United States. The Journal Of Infectious Diseases 2001, 185: 237-243. PMID: 11807698, DOI: 10.1086/338060.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLegionnaires' diseasePontiac feverOutbreaks of LDTravel Associated Legionnaires' DiseaseImmunoglobulin M antibodiesLegionella pneumophila serogroup 6Fragment length polymorphism typingIgM seropositivityCohort studyM antibodiesIndex patientsPF casesEnhanced surveillanceSPA exposureOutbreak investigationSerogroup 6DiseaseWhirlpool spaFeverPolymorphism typingOutbreakNew laboratory techniquesLegionellosisSurveillanceEnvironmental investigations