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Dec. 18, 2024
Patient Safety Analysis Quick Reference Guides
These quick reference guides were created to help you understand, modify, and interpret your data using the NHSN application’s various analysis output (report) options for the NHSN Patient Safety Component. These guides serve as companions to the “Introduction to NHSN Analysis” training slideset.
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Nov. 20, 2024
Patient Safety Analysis Resources
The NHSN application provides various options that allow NHSN users to analyze their surveillance data. The resources listed below are intended to help you use the analysis tool, and interpret data analyzed from the Patient Safety Component of NHSN.
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May. 23, 2024
National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Analysis Training Videos
Presentations from the 2024 annual NHSN live training hosted virtually were recorded and are now posted on this page as archived videos. You can view presentations on how to identify, report, and analyze VAE, PedVAE, CAUTI, CLABSI, Secondary Bloodstream Infection (BSI) and Site-Specific Infections, SSI, MRSA Bacteremia and C. difficile LabID events, as well as presentations on validation of healthcare-associated infection data and data quality, reporting and analysis of antibiotic use and resistance data, the Outpatient Procedure Component (OPC), Rebaseline, NHSN Geolocation, and information on the upcoming the NHSN Initiatives Digital Quality Measures and Hospital Bed Capacity Project.
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Apr. 11, 2024
Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs) Resources
Healthcare-associated infections (HAI) are a threat to patient safety. CDC provides a listing of resources from national leadership in surveillance, outbreak investigations, laboratory research, and prevention of healthcare-associated infections for healthcare facilities and workers.
Hospital Acquired InfectionsDocument
Jan. 1, 2024
National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Patient Safety Component Manual
This NHSN Patient Safety Component (PSC) resource is available to access modules that focus on process measures and events associated with medical devices, surgical procedures, antimicrobial agents used during the provision of healthcare, and multidrug-resistant organisms.
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Dec. 7, 2022
HAI National Action Plan
This HAI Action Plan, published by the U.S Department of Health and Human Services, provides a roadmap for preventing HAIs in acute care hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, end-stage renal disease facilities, and long-term care facilities.
Hospital Acquired InfectionsDocument
Oct. 7, 2022
Best Practices to Reduce Falls Associated with Toileting Presentation Slides
Use this slide deck to accompany the Video Best Practices to Reduce Falls Associated with Toileting by Patricia A. Quigley.
Falls and Falls with InjuryDocument
Oct. 7, 2022
Redesigning Post Fall Management: Getting to Types of Falls, Repeat Falls, and Determining Preventab
Use this slide deck to accompany the Video Post Fall Management: Getting to Types of Falls, Repeat Falls, and Determining Preventability by Patricia A. Quigley.
Falls and Falls with InjuryDocument
Jun. 23, 2022
Issue Paper: Protect Rural Health Care: Funding for Rural Health Clinics
Rural Health Clinics (RHCs) exist to preserve access to rural care. Created by Congress in 1977, RHCs are a lifeline to rural communities that would otherwise struggle to have adequate access to primary and preventive care.
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May. 1, 2022
Toolkit for Decolonization of Non-ICU Patients with Devices
This AHRQ toolkit can help hospital infection prevention programs implement a decolonization protocol that was found to reduce bloodstream infections by more than 30 percent in adult inpatients who were not in intensive care units (ICUs) and who had specific medical devices. It includes implementation instructions, demonstration videos, and customizable tools.
Hospital Acquired Infections