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ArticleEuro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin2026

Current state and potential of hospitals for automated healthcare-associated infection surveillance: data from 24 European countries, 2022 to 2023.

Ferenc Darius Rüther, Mariana Guedes, Elisabeth Presterl, Carl Suetens, Diamantis Plachouras, Maaike Sm van Mourik, Stephanie van Rooden, ECDC PPS study group on automated surveillance of HAIs, Collaborators

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Ferenc Darius RütherNational Reference Center for Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections, Berlin, Germany.
Mariana GuedesDepartment of Medicine, University of Sevilla/Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS)/Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Seville, Spain.
Elisabeth PresterlDepartment of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Carl SuetensEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden.
Diamantis PlachourasEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden.
Maaike Sm van MourikDepartment of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Stephanie van RoodenDepartment of Epidemiology and Surveillance, Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Surveillance, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands.
ECDC PPS study group on automated surveillance of HAIsThe members of the study group are listed under Collaborators and at the end of the article.
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BACKGROUNDAlthough electronic health records are increasingly used for automated surveillance (AS) of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), implementation is still a challenge. To develop more targeted implementation initiatives across Europe, knowledge about the current state of AS and potential to implement AS systems is needed.AIMTo assess the adoption and feasibility of AS based on the 2022-2023 European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) Point Prevalence Survey (PPS).METHODSThe 2022-2023 ECDC PPS included questions on the degree of AS and digital data storage for seven HAIs. Descriptive analyses of the responses were performed and stratified by geographic region and hospital characteristics. Categorical variables were analysed as such and converted to ordinal scales.RESULTSOverall, 992 hospitals from 24 European countries participated. Across all seven HAIs, fully manual surveillance was the most common method (from healthcare-associated pneumonia (HAP) 38.8% to

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