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An Electronic Health Record-Wide Association Study to identify populations at increased risk of E. coli bloodstream infections

2025-05-15 epidemiology Title + abstract only
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BackgroundEscherichia coli bloodstream infections (BSIs) have been under mandatory surveillance in the UK for fifteen years, but cases continue to rise. Systematic searches of all features present within electronic healthcare records (EHRs), described here as an EHR-wide association study (EHR-WAS), could potentially identify under-appreciated factors that could be targeted to reduce infections. MethodsWe used data from Oxfordshire, UK, and an EHR-WAS method developed for use with large-scale C...

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