WHONET Workshop

December 8, 2010, Taiwan CDC

 Agenda
Introduction
What is WHONET?
What can WHONET do?

Practice
Installing
WHONET
Laboratory Configuration

Data Entry

Data Analysis

BacLink
 What is WHONET?(1/2)
http://www.who.int/medicines/areas/rational_
use/AMR_WHONET_SOFTWARE/en/
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)
Purpose
To enhance local use of laboratory data.
To promote national and international
collaboration through data exchange.
 WHONET Features(1/2)
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)
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)
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)
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?
Three main components of WHONET
Laboratory configurationuser customization
Data entrysusceptibility test results

Data analysismany types

 BacLink
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
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

Setting up an analysis%RIS
Part 2
and test measurements
Running the analysis and
Part 3
interpreting the results
Transferring WHONET results to
Part 4
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
Introduction
What is WHONET?
What can WHONET do?

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