A WEB-BASED SYSTEM TO REDUCE THE NOSOCOMIAL INFECTION IMPACT IN HEALTCARE UNITS

Hugo Rigor, José Machado, António Abelha, José Neves, Carlos Alberto

2008

Abstract

The nosocomial infection has a critical impact on the mortality and morbidity of the patients in healthcare units, especially in intensive care units, and has been studied in order to be mitigated. The registration of information about this phenomenon in databases is, more and more, a reality, turning viable the representation of this information through mathematical formalisms that, conjugated with the application of Artificial Intelligence techniques, will allow the discovery of knowledge related with the critical factors, processes and infectious agents. The ultimate goal has been to construct a web-based computational tool to automate the registration process to support the clinical body work, monitoring the performance and identifying the procedures that can be implemented in order to reduce the impact of the infections.

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Rigor H., Machado J., Abelha A., Neves J. and Alberto C. (2008). A WEB-BASED SYSTEM TO REDUCE THE NOSOCOMIAL INFECTION IMPACT IN HEALTCARE UNITS . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-8111-26-5, pages 264-268. DOI: 10.5220/0001522602640268


in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist08,
author={Hugo Rigor and José Machado and António Abelha and José Neves and Carlos Alberto},
title={A WEB-BASED SYSTEM TO REDUCE THE NOSOCOMIAL INFECTION IMPACT IN HEALTCARE UNITS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2008},
pages={264-268},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001522602640268},
isbn={978-989-8111-26-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - A WEB-BASED SYSTEM TO REDUCE THE NOSOCOMIAL INFECTION IMPACT IN HEALTCARE UNITS
SN - 978-989-8111-26-5
AU - Rigor H.
AU - Machado J.
AU - Abelha A.
AU - Neves J.
AU - Alberto C.
PY - 2008
SP - 264
EP - 268
DO - 10.5220/0001522602640268