CDC/NHSN surveillance definition of health care-associated infection and criteria for specific types of infections in the acute care setting.
By T. Horan, Mary L Andrus, Margaret A. Dudeck. American Journal of Infection Control, 2008
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Subfields: Clinical Biochemistry, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Infectious Diseases
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- Post-stroke infection: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2011, methodology): “infection - as described by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [42] - is preferred since stricter criteria could permit identification of fewer infections.”
- National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) report: data summary for 2006 through 2008, issued December 2009. (2008, neutral): “32 BRST Breast surgery 122 1, 2, 3 7 (3) 659 7 1.”
- Global epidemiology of pediatric severe sepsis: the sepsis prevalence, outcomes, and therapies study. (2015, neutral): “Definitions for the primary site of infection were adapted from published criteria (32).”
- Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control in Acute-Care Settings (2011, background): “Nosocomial infections are HAIs acquired in an acute-care setting that were neither present nor incubating at the time of admission (139).”
- Nurse staffing, burnout, and health care-associated infection. (2012, neutral): “37 41 Our sample of hospitals included all hospitals that reported data on health care–associated infections to the PHC4 in 2006, and our sample of registered nurses represented all nurses employed in those same hospitals who responded to our questionnaire.”
- Guidelines for the prevention of intravascular catheter-related infections. (2011, neutral): “html).(206) A CLABSI is a primary BSI in a patient that had a central line within the 48-hour period before the development of the BSI and is not bloodstream related to an infection at another site.”
- Clinical Practice Guidelines for Antimicrobial Prophylaxis in Surgery (2013, neutral): “Criteria for defining an SSI have also been established by NHSN (Appendix B) [8,36].”