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National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) overview
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April 2015
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Alternative Title:NHSN overview;Patient safety component manual;
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Description:Called also: Patient safety component manual.
The NHSN is a secure, Internet-based surveillance system that expands and integrates patient and healthcare personnel safety surveillance systems managed by the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In addition, facilities that participate in certain reporting programs operated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) can do so through use of NHSN. Furthermore, some U.S. states use NHSN as a means for healthcare facilities to submit data on healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) mandated through their specific state legislation.
NHSN enables healthcare facilities to collect and use data about HAIs, adherence to clinical practices known to prevent HAIs, the incidence or prevalence of multidrug- resistant organisms within their organizations, trends and coverage of healthcare personnel safety and vaccination, and adverse events related to the transfusion of blood and blood products.
The NHSN includes five components: Patient Safety, Healthcare Personnel Safety, Biovigilance, Dialysis, and Long-term Care Facility.
January 2015, some chapters revised April 2015.
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Pages in Document:312 pages in numerous paginations
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