Enhanced Bacteraemia (Bloodstream infections) Surveillance in Ireland

Data on bacteraemia caused by selected pathogens is currently collected as part of the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (EARS-NET).

EARS-NET was enhanced in Ireland to collect demographic, risk factor and clinical data for each EARS-NET isolate reported since 2004. The enhanced programme involves voluntary participation by hospitals that provide data on invasive pathogens causing bloodstream infections.

Purpose: To provide epidemiological insights into antimicrobial resistance data from key pathogens in order to inform infection prevention and control teams and other policy decision makers.

Coverage: Voluntary participation (22 laboratories regularly participate accounting for 45% of EARS-Net isolates).

Data are collected quarterly.

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Additional Info

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Name
Health Protection Surveillance Centre
Email
data@health-protection-su.ie
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Publisher 1
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Name
Health Protection Surveillance Centre
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URL
Type
http://purl.org/adms/publishertype/NationalAuthority
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Release date January 1, 2004
Modification date September 3, 2024
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Identifier NDC-0027
Frequency http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/frequency/QUARTERLY
Provenance

In Ireland, the system was enhanced to gather additional information including patient risk factors, sources of infection and patient outcome. This is an enhancement of the existing EARS-Net data collection system.

Data are collected on a quarterly basis.
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Temporal coverage
Temporal coverage 1
Start
January 1, 2004
End
June 27, 2025
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Spatial coverage 1
URI
http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/country/IRL
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Ireland
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Access rights http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/access-right/PUBLIC
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  1. http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/data-theme/HEAL
Language
  1. http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/ENG
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  1. http://health.europa.eu/ehds/category/registries
  2. http://health.europa.eu/ehds/category/public-health
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  1. http://health.europa.eu/theme/chronic-disease
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Minimum typical age 18
Maximum typical age 75
Number of records 354153
Number of records for unique individuals. 405914
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