| ID#: | 14774 |
| Description: | This historic image depicted two Centers for Disease Control (CDC) public health advisers, as they were working on a pilot study known as SENIC (Study on the Efficacy of Nosocomial Infection Control), which measured the accuracy of a system, designed by Robert W. Haley, M.D., that detected hospital-acquired infections through the analysis of medical records. SENIC was ultimately used to measure the change of infection rates in a random sample of U.S. hospitals. In this picture the two men appear to be doing an in-line quality control analysis, by comparing the agreement of duplicate reviews of the same medical records.
To this day, the SENIC Project is still is the largest national study ever done by CDC, and it established the scientific basis for the infection control programs that are in every hospital in the western world. |
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| Content Providers(s): | CDC/ Robert W. Haley, M.D. |
| Creation Date: | 1977 |
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| Links: | American Journal of Epidemiology - "The SENIC Project: Study on the Efficacy of Nosocomial Infection Control (SENIC PROJECT)", Vol. Ill, No. 5, Copyright © 1980, by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
Southwestern Medical Center – Faculty Finder: Robert W. Haley, M.D.
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| Copyright Restrictions: | None - This image is in the public domain and thus free of any copyright restrictions. As a matter of courtesy we request that the content provider be credited and notified in any public or private usage of this image. |
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