A Narrative Review of the Laboratory Information System and Its Role in Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance in South Africa
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=49352#.VI5OM8nQrzE Author(s) Peter S. Nyasulu , Christine Paszko , Nontombi Mbelle Affiliation(s) Department of Public Health, School of Health Sciences, Monash University, Johannesburg, South Africa . Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc., West End, NC, USA . Department of Medical Microbiology, University of the Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa . ABSTRACT A laboratory information system (LIS) established in a microbiology department has the potential to play an important role in the quality of microbiology data such as culture of blood, urine, stool, pus swab samples etc. Such data could b e effectively utilised to measure th...