@article{(Open Science Index):https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10399, title = {Building an Inferential Model between Caregivers and Patients by using RFID}, author = {Yung-Ting Chang and Chung-You Tsai and Yu-Chuan Li}, country = {}, institution = {}, abstract = {Nosocomial (i.e., hospital-acquired) infections (NI) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in hospitals. NI rate is higher in intensive care units (ICU) than in the general ward due to patients with severe symptoms, poor immunity, and accepted many invasive therapies. Contact behaviors between health caregivers and patients is one of the infect factors. It is difficult to obtain complete contact records by traditional method of retrospective analysis of medical records. This paper establishes a contact history inferential model (CHIM) intended to extend the use of Proximity Sensing of rapid frequency identification (RFID) technology to transferring all proximity events between health caregivers and patients into clinical events (close-in events, contact events and invasive events).The results of the study indicated that the CHIM can infer proximity care activities into close-in events and contact events. The infection control team could redesign and build optimal workflow in the ICU according to the patient-specific contact history which provided by our automatic tracing system.}, journal = {International Journal of Health and Medical Engineering}, volume = {4}, number = {8}, year = {2010}, pages = {360 - 363}, ee = {https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10399}, url = {https://publications.waset.org/vol/44}, bibsource = {https://publications.waset.org/}, issn = {eISSN: 1307-6892}, publisher = {World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology}, index = {Open Science Index 44, 2010}, }