The Danish Microbiology Database (MiBa) 2010 to 2013

M Voldstedlund; M Haarh; K Mølbak; the MiBa Board of Representatives

doi:10.2807/1560-7917.ES2014.19.1.20667

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The Danish Microbiology Database (MiBa) 2010 to 2013
M Voldstedlund¹ , M Haarh¹ , K Mølbak¹ , the MiBa Board of Representatives²
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Affiliations: ¹ Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Statens Serum Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark ² The representatives of the board are listed at the end of the article

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M Voldstedlund
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Citation style for this article: Voldstedlund M, Haarh M, Mølbak K, the MiBa Board of Representatives. The Danish Microbiology Database (MiBa) 2010 to 2013. Euro Surveill. 2014;19(1):pii=20667. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES2014.19.1.20667 Received: 08 Jul 2013

Abstract

The Danish Microbiology Database (MiBa) is a national database that receives copies of reports from all Danish departments of clinical microbiology. The database was launched in order to provide healthcare personnel with nationwide access to microbiology reports and to enable real-time surveillance of communicable diseases and microorganisms. The establishment and management of MiBa has been a collaborative process among stakeholders, and the present paper summarises lessons learned from this nationwide endeavour which may be relevant to similar projects in the rapidly changing landscape of health informatics.