National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN)
CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network is the nation’s most widely used healthcare-associated infection tracking system. NHSN provides facilities, states, regions, and the nation with data needed to identify problem areas, measure progress of prevention efforts, and ultimately eliminate healthcare-associated infections.
In addition, NHSN allows healthcare facilities to track blood safety errors and important healthcare process measures such as healthcare personnel influenza vaccine status and infection control adherence rates.
Additional Resources
- Biovigilance Component Protocol April 2018 pdf icon[PDF – 1 MB]
- Healthcare Personnel Safety Component Manual pdf icon[PDF – 1 MB]
- Long-term Care Facility Manual 2020 pdf icon[PDF – 3 MB]
- 2021 NHSN Patient Safety Component Manual pdf icon[PDF – 8 MB]
- 2020 Patient Safety Component Manual pdf icon[PDF – 6 MB]
- 2021 Outpatient Procedure Component Manual pdf icon[PDF – 2 MB]
Page last reviewed: November 20, 2020