Health Care Quality Resource Center
Health Care Quality Resource Center
We’re excited to offer you a dedicated space to find up-to-date information on quality and patient safety resources, tools, educational opportunities such as webinars, information on events, news and updates from the WHA Chief Quality Officer, Quality Director, Quality Managers and more!
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Nov. 25, 2024
Current HAI Progress Report
This report, along with the detailed technical tables, provides national- and state-level data about HAI incidence during 2023. The report is designed to be accessible to many audiences. National and state HAI reports will be available for viewing, downloading, and printing from the Antimicrobial Resistance and Patient Safety Portal. For detailed methods, references, and definitions, please refer to the Technical Appendix and Glossary within this report. For more information, please visit CDC's Healthcare-Associated Infection Data Reports website.
HospitalAcquiredInfectionsPage
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.
HospitalAcquiredInfectionsPage
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.
HospitalAcquiredInfectionsPage
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.
HospitalAcquiredInfectionsPage
Apr. 3, 2024
Infection Control Basics
Infection control prevents or stops the spread of infections in healthcare settings. This resource page from the CDC provides Healthcare workers ways to reduce the risk of healthcare-associated infections and protect themselves, patients and visitors by following CDC guidelines.
HospitalAcquiredInfectionsPage
Mar. 1, 2023
Toolkit for Preventing CLABSI and CAUTI in ICUs
This customizable, educational toolkit aims to help ICUs reduce rates of central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) and catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI).
HospitalAcquiredInfectionsPage
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.
HospitalAcquiredInfectionsPage
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.
HospitalAcquiredInfectionsDocument
Apr. 1, 2022
Guide to Implementing and Sustaining a Program to Prevent CLABSI and CAUTI in the Intensive Care Uni
AHRQ Safety Program for Intensive Care Units: Preventing CLABSI and CAUTI. This guide will help your team navigate resources that enhance previous Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) resources to reduce central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) and catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) in the hospital setting. Additionally, these resources introduce a new, tiered interventional approach designed to help overcome challenges with persistently elevated infection rates in the intensive care unit (ICU) setting.
HospitalAcquiredInfectionsPage
Mar. 1, 2018
Toolkit for Reducing CAUTI in Hospitals
This is a Toolkit for Reducing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI) in Hospitals helps hospitals prevent CAUTI in patients and improve safety culture at the unit level by implementing concepts from the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP). Health care professionals can use it to make care safer by following clinical best practices and creating a culture of safety. The toolkit has evidence-based, practical resources that reflect the real-world experiences of the frontline providers and researchers who participated in a national implementation project to reduce CAUTIs. It builds on the core CUSP toolkit by providing specific tools focused on reducing CAUTI in hospitals.
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