Antibiotic Resistance Solutions Initiative : CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN)

Details

• Alternative Title:
  National Healthcare Safety Network ; NHSN
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.). Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion.
• Description:
  Antibiotic Use and Resistance (AUR) reporting will provide real time facility-specific and region-wide data on antibiotic use and resistance trends. ; Healthcare facilities across the region will be able to electronically transfer both antibiotic resistance data from laboratories and antibiotic prescribing data from hospital pharmacies to CDC’s NHSN National Healthcare Safety Network to improve physician, pharmacy, and laboratory decision making ; These data will allow CDC to provide benchmark antibiotic use and resistance at the local, state and national level, plus healthcare facilities will benefit greatly. ; CS253751-I
• Subjects:
  • Anti-Infective Agents/therapeutic use
  • Bacterial Infections/drug therapy
  • Drug Resistance, Bacterial
  • Communicable Disease Control
  • Cross Infection/Epidemiology
  • Drug Resistance, Microbia
  • Health Facilities
  • Hospitals
  • Infection Control
  • Information Systems
  More +
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Corporate as Subject:
  Antibiotic Resistance Solutions Initiative ; National Healthcare Safety Network
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  1 unnumbered page
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/27776/cdc_27776_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 334.97 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:9e84a0f4ddea004b894713223b392fea39f956c1b54c6233a67c24093a5972f2