Background
Clinical Epidemiology is focused on the surveillance of infections, patient safety and medical injuries among the Navy and Marine Corps beneficiary population and healthcare workers providing care for that population. The EpiData Center conducts surveillance activities using medical informatics data systems and innovative analytical tools. Surveillance activities include antibiotic-resistant and multidrug-resistant organism identification, emerging pathogens and antibiotic resistance patterns, hospital-acquired infections, medical injuries, and blood-borne pathogen exposure.
The EpiData Center has developed and applied analytical and surveillance tools to create metrics for monitoring, tracking and estimating disease burden enterprise wide and at the MTF level. The Navy Antimicrobial Surveillance System (NASS) has improved antibiotics resistance surveillance through combined use of electronic microbiology laboratory results, restructuring algorithms and other tools to create a comprehensive system that monitors drug resistance and emerging infectious organisms within the military health system.
Objectives
- Provide antibiotics resistance surveillance support to Department of Navy (DON).
- Develop metrics for estimating infection burden in the beneficiary population as a result of antibiotic resistance.
- Provide epidemiological, statistical, and analytical support to BUMED's infection control and patient safety programs.
- Design and conduct studies to identify DON beneficiary populations affected by infections caused by multidrug-resistant and other important organisms and the healthcare outcomes associated with those infections.
- Manage a dashboard for monitoring antibiotic-resistant organisms.
- Answer data calls from all echelons, including routine data requests, ad hoc case identification to support public health investigations, and ad hoc studies to support decisions on emerging infection threats.
Product Line
- Infection Surveillance
- Multi-Drug Resistant Organism Surveillance
- Hospital Acquired Infection Surveillance
- Antibiotic-Resistant Organism Dashboard
- Patient Safety
- Adverse Event
- National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) support (LabID Event Module)
Content last reviewed on July 26, 2011.