Volume 5, Number 3—June 1999
Dispatch
Application of Data Mining to Intensive Care Unit Microbiologic Data1
Stephen A. Moser
, Warren T. Jones, and Stephen E. Brossette
, Warren T. Jones, and Stephen E. Brossette
Table 2
A sample event generated by the Data Mining Surveillance System
| Association rule | pc-5a | pc-4 | pc-3 | pc-2 | pc-1 | pc | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (nosocomial SICUb, tracheal aspirate | ==> | {Acinetobacter baumannii} | 0/11 | 0/10 | 0/9 | 0/13 | 2/9 | 3/9 | ||||
| wpc | wc | |||||||||||
aPc, current pair.
bSICU, surgical intensive care unit.
cwp, past window; wc, current window.
1Presented in part at the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases, March 8-11, 1998, Atlanta, Georgia.
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