- MDRO - Multidrug-resistant Organism
- Stay Updated! - Automatic E-mail updates
- Biovigilance - Biovigilance Component
The National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) is a voluntary, secure, internet-based surveillance system that integrates and expands legacy patient and healthcare personnel safety surveillance systems managed by the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP) at CDC. NHSN also includes a new component for hospitals to monitor adverse reactions and incidents associated with receipt of blood and blood products. Enrollment is open to all types of healthcare facilities in the United States, including acute care hospitals, long term acute care hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals, outpatient dialysis centers, ambulatory surgery centers, and long term care facilities. For more information, click on the topics below.
Topics
- About NHSN
- Overview, External Peer Review,
- Confidentiality,
- How data are used...
- Enrollment Requirements
- Eligibility, Required Training,
- Reporting & System Requirements,
- Security, Begin Enrollment...
- Resource Library
- Guides, Manuals, NHSN Codes
- & Variables,
- FAQs, HIPAA...
- Data Collection Forms
- Forms for routine data collection including customizable forms
- to meet specific needs...
- Patient Safety Component
- Procedure, Device (Dialysis Event),
- Medication-associated, MDRO,
- & HRIIV Modules...
- Healthcare Personnel Safety Component
- Benefits of Participation,
- Facility-Level Options,
- BBF Exposure Module...
- Biovigilance Component
- Hemovigilance Module
- Overview, Protocol and
- Tables of Instructions...
- NHSN Training
- Pre-recorded webcasts: Enrollment ,
- Data Entry, Surveillance, Analysis,
- PS & HPS Components...
Communication Updates
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NHSN Report 2008 NHSN Report, data summary for 2006 through 2007
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Contact NHSN:
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Healthcare Safety Network
MS-A24
1600 Clifton Rd
Atlanta, GA 30333 - nhsn@cdc.gov