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Review
. 2017 Sep 5:358:j3781.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.j3781.

Using information technology to improve surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in South East Asia

Sirenda Vong  1 , Amaury Anciaux  2 , Anette Hulth  3 , John Stelling  4 , Visanu Thamlikitkul  5 , Sunil Gupta  6 , Jonas M Fuks  3 , Kāmini Walia  7 , Pinyo Rattanumpawan  5 , Sergey Eremin  8 , Klara Tisocki  9 , Tika R Sedai  10 , Anuj Sharma  2
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Review

Using information technology to improve surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in South East Asia

Sirenda Vong et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Sirenda Vong and colleagues argue that investing in information technology surveillance systems to detect trends is an essential first step in tackling antimicrobial resistance in South East Asian countries

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: The authors have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and declare no competing interests.

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Fig 1 Requirements and proposed solution by segment of surveillance data flow. *WHONET is free windows based database software developed for the management and analysis of microbiology laboratory data with a special focus on the analysis of antimicrobial susceptibility test results. BacLink is a free data conversion utility to facilitate the transfer of data from existing laboratory information systems into WHONET and thus avoid the need for double data entry. WHONET and BacLink are developed by the WHO Collaborating Centre for Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance based at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. LIS=laboratory information system; GLASS=Global AMR Surveillance System; JANIS=Japan Nosocomial Infections Surveillance; Svebar=Swedish surveillance of antimicrobial resistance.
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