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Beginning Jan. 1, 2011, the CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) will be the tool used by facilities electing to participate in the CMS HAI IPPS Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program.

Electronic Surveillance Systems: Data Mining Can Yield Rich Results for Infection Prevention

January 17th 2011

Even in the age of public reporting, there still exists a chasm between the healthcare institutions that use electronic surveillance systems (ESSs) in their infection prevention and control programs and those that do not. And according to experts, there is little known about the characteristics of hospitals that have an ESS, user satisfaction with ESSs, and organizational support for implementation of ESSs.

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