ArticleInfection control and hospital epidemiology2016
Lack of Comprehensive Outbreak Detection in Hospitals.
Article in Infection control and hospital epidemiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed.
- A Trial of Automated Outbreak Detection to Reduce Hospital Pathogen Spread.NEJM evidence · 2024Trial
- Hospital-wide pathogen transmission surveillance combining epidemiological, genetic, and spectroscopic approaches.Microbiology spectrum · 2026Article
- Real-Time Genomic Surveillance for Enhanced Healthcare Outbreak Detection and Control: Clinical and Economic Impact.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2026Article
- Artificial intelligence enhances genomic surveillance in healthcare outbreak investigations.Infection control and hospital epidemiology · 2026Article
- Genomic sequencing surveillance of patients colonized with vancomycin-resistant enterococci improves detection of healthcare-associated transmission.BMC global and public health · 2025Article
- Pathogen genomics in healthcare: overcoming barriers to proactive surveillance.Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2025Article
- Genomic Surveillance for Enhanced Healthcare Outbreak Detection and Control.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
- Implementation of an automated cluster alert system into the routine work of infection control and hospital epidemiology: experiences from a tertiary care university hospital.BMC infectious diseases · 2021Article
- Automated outbreak detection of hospital-associated pathogens: Value to infection prevention programs.Infection control and hospital epidemiology · 2020Article
- Article
- Automated detection of outbreaks of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria in Japan.The Journal of hospital infection · 2019Article
- Statistical outbreak detection by joining medical records and pathogen similarity.Journal of biomedical informatics · 2019Article
Corrections and comments
- Commented on by
Authors and funding
8 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Timely identification of outbreaks of hospital-associated infections is needed to implement control measures and minimize impact. Survey results from 33 hospitals indicated that most hospitals lacked a formal cluster definition and all targeted a very limited group of prespecified pathogens. Standardized, statistically based outbreak detection could greatly improve current practice.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.