Abstract Background Infectious disease exposure investigations in the hospital are labor-intensive for infection prevention and control (IPC) team vulnerable to healthcare personnel (HCP) recall bias. We developed an electronic health record (EHR) algorithm identify rank patient-HCP interactions based on likelihood intensity of exposure. Methods compared conventional EHR-based findings from sev...

Between 2001 and 2014, 78 reported measles cases resulted from transmission in US healthcare facilities, and 29 healthcare personnel were infected from occupational exposure, 1 of whom transmitted measles to a patient. The economic impact of preventing and controlling measles transmission in healthcare facilities was $19 000-$114 286 per case.

The introduction of the US government's Meaningful Use criteria carries with it many implications including the training curriculum of healthcare personnel. This study examines 108 health informatics degree programmes across the USA. First, the courses offered are identified and classified into generic classes. Next, these generic groupings are mapped to two important frameworks: the Learning t...

the objective of this study was to assess the seroprevalence of varicella antibodies in healthcare workers and students of healthcare professions and to determine the validity of the self-reported varicella and zona history for detecting susceptible subjects. personnel of imam reza hospital (kermanshah-iran) and students were recruited and a 5 ml blood sample was obtained from all participants....