WHONET
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Improvements in patient care and clinical outcomes are predicated on an effective infectious disease surveillance system. To facilitate advances in both these areas, AIHA developed a program for continuous quality improvement in hospital microbiology laboratories. This program includes establishing internal quality control systems for media, reagents, and test performance; introducing current methods of antimicrobial susceptibility testing; and creating an antimicrobial surveillance network, using the World Health Organization’s WHONET information system.
The AIHA program began early in 1997 with a thorough evaluation of microbiology laboratories in three partnership hospitals and at three central reference laboratories in the Russian Federation and Ukraine. Based on needs assessments, each of these six pilot laboratories received equipment and supplies that allowed for quality testing of antimicrobial susceptibility and ongoing monitoring of test results. Since then, a total of 18 AIHA partnership hospitals throughout Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Ukraine have implemented the WHONET system; 13 of them are currently active in the program.
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