Pathology lab confirmed legionnaires’ disease a week before Queensland Health was notified
“On investigation we found that the initial result of the first patient wasn’t notified automatically as we usually would,” he said.
What are the standards?
ACSQHC Core Information Components Structured Microbiology Requests and Reports for Healthcare Associated Infections
See Result Observables – Microorganism Classification to be defined (LOINC).
eg, Legionella
The same ACSQHC standard is referred to by DoHA in its submission (#32) to the JETACAR follow-up Inquiry. (3.10)
ACSQHC is developing a standard, hospital-level cumulative antibiogram for local surveillance of antimicrobial resistance. Standardisation of laboratory reporting has been developed as a best practice health information standard for structured microbiology requests and reports.
Seems LOINC does NOT refer to an international system of nomenclature for microorganism names. How does NEHTA-DoHA plan to track problem microbes, eg., Legionella, Salmonella, MERS-CoV, CRE, etc, in a sustainable, searchable, consistent real-time format?
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