/ramses-package

R Package for Data-Driven Antimicrobial Stewardship & Surveillance in Hospitals

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Ramses: R package for Antimicrobial Stewardship & Surveillance

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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

Funders

National Institute of Health Research    Economic and Social Research Council    Rosetree Trust

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.