AHRQ’s Healthcare-Associated Infections Program: A webpage with overview of efforts to train hospital staff on how to better prevent infections. This page includes a link to national scorecard reports on preventing healthcare-association infections.
The CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network is the nation’s most widely used health care-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. NHSN allows health care facilities to track blood safety errors and important health care process measures such as health care personnel influenza vaccine status and infection control adherence rates.
Health care-associated infection data from the CDC: This is data from U.S. health care facilities that reported at least one health care-associated infection to the CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network. Facilities in these states are required by law to report HAI data to NHSN.
Patient Safety Atlas: The CDC’s interactive datasets to learn about patient safety. Datasets include antibiotic resistance, health care-associated infections, outpatient antibiotic use and inpatient antibiotic stewardship.