Ramses: R package for Antimicrobial Stewardship & Surveillance
Ramses is an analytical software package helping
hospitals to monitor their antimicrobial prescribing and the management of
infections using routine electronic health records.Overview
Ramses is a start-to-finish tool for data warehousing and analysis, supporting:
- initial data preparation and validation;
- database loading and transformation
- analyses of antibiotic consumption, initiation, and de-escalation
- analyses of infection diagnosing and treatment.
Ramses supports routine electronic health records:
- admission/discharge/transfer data and ward movements
- antibiotic prescription and administration records
- microbiology order requests and results
- other clinical investigations (blood counts, vitals, point of care tests. etc.).
Features
- measuring antibiotic consumption
- integration with the AMR package for classification/prediction of resistance phenotypes
- compatible with DuckDB and PostgreSQL databases
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Licence
Copyright © 2022 University College London
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.