This PhD Dissertation project had as its objectives: (1) to develop MIASMA, a potentially open-source Medical Informatics Application for Systematic Microbiological Alerts that uses recently developed methods (e.g., from syndromic surveillance and from heuristic observations) to detect single-hospital outbreaks of both commonly occurring and rare bacterial, viral, and fungal species; (2) to deploy MIASMA in the Vanderbilt University Hospital (VUH) for use by the Department of Infection Control and Prevention; (3) to compare the alerting timeliness, positive predictive value, and sensitivity of MIASMA to current VUH infection control practices; and (4) to evaluate the utility of MIASMA when used to supplement current VUH infection control practices.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VANDERBILT/oai:VANDERBILTETD:etd-09012011-094426 |
| Date | 14 September 2011 |
| Creators | Carnevale, Randy Joseph |
| Contributors | Randolph Miller, Thomas Talbot, Dario Giuse, William Schaffner, Cynthia Gadd, S. Trent Rosenbloom |
| Publisher | VANDERBILT |
| Source Sets | Vanderbilt University Theses |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-09012011-094426/ |
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