In collaboration with a research librarian, we searched 3 electronic
databases: Ovid Medline, Ovid Medline In-process, and Scopus.
In addition to using controlled vocabulary in Medline, we combined
the term infection with terms defining surveillance such as
track, monitor, assess, screen, and prevent, and terms that indicate
a primary care setting such as primary care, outpatient clinic, community,
physician office, nurse managed clinics, and patient centered
medical home. Article inclusion criteria were published between
January 1, 2003, and January 29, 2015; written in the English language;
published in a peer-reviewed journal; and content related
to existing infection surveillance in a primary care setting in the
United States. Exclusion criteria included editorials, commentaries,
abstracts, conference proceedings, and discussions of the subject;
articles related to ambulatory specialty care clinics (eg, HIV clinic
and sexually transmitted disease clinic) or ambulatory specialty
centers (eg, surgical centers, dialysis centers, and infusion centers);