This National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) surveillance case study is part of a case-study series in the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC). These cases reflect some of the complex patient scenarios Infection Preventionists (IPs) have encountered in their daily surveillance of healthcare-associated infections (HAI) using NHSN definitions. Objectives have been previously published.
1All individual participant answers will remain confidential, although it is the authors’ intention to share a summary of the findings later. Cases, answers, and explanations have been reviewed and approved by NHSN Protocol and Validation Team. We hope that you will take advantage of this offering, and we look forward to your active participation.
We strongly recommend participants review or reference the website and NHSN Patient Safety Component Manual Device-Associated Module for information that may be needed to answer the case study questions.
The website links are:
https://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/pdfs/pscmanual/2psc_identifyinghais_nhsncurrent.pdfhttps://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/pdfs/pscmanual/4psc_clabscurrent.pdfhttps://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/pdfs/pscmanual/6pscvapcurrent.pdfhttps://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/pdfs/pscmanual/10-vae_final.pdf The findings and conclusions in this case study are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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