Yung-Ting Chang and Chung-You Tsai and Yu-Chuan Li
Building an Inferential Model between Caregivers and Patients by using RFID
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2010
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International Journal of Health and Medical Engineering
https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10399
https://publications.waset.org/vol/44
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
Nosocomial (i.e., hospitalacquired) 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 (closein events, contact events and
invasive events).The results of the study indicated that the
CHIM can infer proximity care activities into closein events
and contact events.
The infection control team could redesign and build optimal
workflow in the ICU according to the patientspecific contact
history which provided by our automatic tracing system.
Open Science Index 44, 2010