METHOD FOR MEASURING THE INCIDENCE OF HOSPITAL ACQUIRED INFECTIONS

• US 20120029944A1
• Filed: 10/12/2011
• Published: 02/02/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Carefusion 303 Incorporated (Becton, Dickinson & Co)
• Original Assignee: Carefusion 303 Incorporated (Becton, Dickinson & Co)
• Inventors: BROSSETTE, Stephen E., HYMEL, Patrick A. Jr., LaBORDE, Gerald T. Jr.
• Granted Patent: US 8,718,947 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/00 Information and communication technology [ICT] specially adapted for implementation of business processes of specific business sectors, e.g. utilities or tourism healthcare informatics G16H
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/13 delivered from dispensers
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/80 for detecting, monitoring or modelling epidemics or pandemics, e.g. flu
• CPC Class Codes: Y02A 90/10 Information and communication technologies [ICT] supporting adaptation to climate change, e.g. for weather forecasting or climate simulation

Abstract

Disclosed is a method and system for analyzing patient hospitalization data to determine a Nosocomial Infection Marker (NIM), the method comprising receiving from a database hospitalization data associated with at least one patient, calculating from the hospitalization data the number of specimens with non-duplicate hospital isolates (SNDHI) markers, calculating from the hospitalization data antibiotic utilization criteria (AUC) markers, and determining the nosocomial infection marker (NIM) for each patient, based upon the calculated. SNDHI and AUC markers.

Claims

1-9. -9. (canceled)

10. A computer-readable non-transitory medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon for execution by a processor to perform a method for analyzing patient hospitalization data in a hospital to determine a Nosocomial Infection Marker (NIM), the method comprising the steps of:

receiving from a database hospitalization data associated with at least one patient;

identifying from the hospitalization data a first day upon which a patient was admitted to the hospital;

identifying from the hospitalization data one or more days upon which antimicrobials were dispensed to the patient;

assigning an Antibiotic Utilization Criteria (AUC) marker of zero to the patient if antimicrobials were dispensed to the patient on a day that is within a first number of days of the first day;

assigning an AUC marker of one to the patient if no antimicrobials were dispensed to the patient within the first number of days of the first day and antimicrobials were dispensed to the patient on each of a second number of sequential days; and

determining the NIM for the patient, wherein the NIM is equal to the AUC marker for that patient.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising the step of:

assigning an AUC marker of one to the patient if no antimicrobials were dispensed to the patient within the first number of days of the first day and antimicrobials were dispensed to the patient starting on a second day and every subsequent day up to and including a day upon which the patient is discharged.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising the steps of:

assigning an AUC marker of one to the patient if no antimicrobials were dispensed to the patient within the first number of days of the first day and antimicrobials were dispensed to the patient starting on a second day and every subsequent day up to and including a day upon which the patient died.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein:

the first day upon which a patient was admitted to the hospital is day 0; and

the first number of days is three, such that an AUC marker of zero is assigned to the patient if antimicrobials were dispensed to the patient on any of days 0, 1, 2, or 3.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein:

the second number of days is four, such that an AUC marker of one is assigned to the patient if antimicrobials were first dispensed to the patient on a day N that is on or after day 4 and on each of the three days subsequent to day N.