WHONET

WHONET Workshop
December 8, 2010, Taiwan CDC
國家衛生研究院 感染症研究組
楊采菱、蕭溢茹、 陳珮琛
Agenda
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Introduction
 What
is WHONET?
 What can WHONET do?
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Practice
 Installing
WHONET
 Laboratory Configuration
 Data Entry
 Data Analysis
 BacLink
What is WHONET?(1/2)
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http://www.who.int/medicines/areas/rational_
use/AMR_WHONET_SOFTWARE/en/
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A free Windows-based database software.
For the management and analysis of microbiology
laboratory data.
Focus on the analysis of antimicrobial susceptibility
test results.
Developed since 1989 by the WHO Collaborating
Centre for Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance.
Used by clinical, public health, veterinary, and food
laboratories in over 90 countries to support local and
national surveillance programs.
What is WHONET?(2/2)
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Purpose：
 To
enhance local use of laboratory data.
 To promote national and international
collaboration through data exchange.
WHONET Features(1/2)
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Data entry of clinical and
microbiological information from
routine diagnostic testing or from
research studies.
A modular configuration, allowing for
the customization of the software for
clinical, epidemiological, veterinary,
molecular, pharmacological and
infection control applications.
WHONET Features(2/2)
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Analysis of antimicrobial susceptibility
test results with line listings,
histograms, scatterplots, and
resistance profiles .
Built-in interpretation guidelines for
most standardized testing
methodologies.
A data structure compatible with major
database, spreadsheet, statistical and
word processing softwares .
WHONET Users & Languages(1/2)
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Primary users：
 microbiology
staff in hospital, public health,
veterinary, food, and environmental
laboratories.
 Also by infection control and pharmacy staff,
public health epidemiologists, and researchers.
WHONET Users & Languages(2/2)
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Currently available in
 English,
Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified),
Estonian, French, German, Greek, Indonesian,
Italian, Japanese, Norwegian (Bokmal and
Nynorsk dialects), Polish, Portugugese,
Russian, Spanish, and Thai.
WHONET Software Key Persons
What Can WHONET do?
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Three main components of WHONET
 Laboratory
configuration：user customization
 Data entry：susceptibility test results
 Data analysis：many types
BacLink
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A data conversion utility to facilitate the
transfer of existing data into WHONET
to avoid the need for double data entry.
BacLink is included and installed as
part of the standard WHONET package.
BacLink
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Baclink can transfer data into WHONET
from：
 common
commercial database and
spreadsheet software.
 commercial susceptibility test instruments for
MIC broth microdilution and disk diffusion
readers.
 hospital and laboratory information systems
through text files.
Data Analysis(1/2)
Part 1
• Getting started
Part 2
• Setting up an analysis：%RIS
and test measurements
Part 3
• Running the analysis and
interpreting the results
Part 4
• Transferring WHONET results to
Excel and other softwares
Part 5
• %Susceptible summary
Part 6
• Isolate listing and summary
Data Analysis(1/2)
Part 1
• Getting started and review
Part 2
• One-per-patient options
Part 3
• Isolate selection criteria
Part 4
• Other options
Part 5
• Scatterplots
Part 6
• Antimicrobial resistance profiles
Agenda
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Introduction
 What
is WHONET?
 What can WHONET do?
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Practice
 Installing
WHONET
 Laboratory Configuration
 Data Entry
 Data Analysis
 BacLink
Installing WHONET – Software Download
WHONET – Create A New Account
WHONET Users Community Homepage
WHONET – Software Download
WHONET Files