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Trying to head off a patchwork of mandatory infection-rate disclosure laws that vary from state to state, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has created a guidance document to serve as a template for new state laws or a national reporting system.
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A draft guidance document by the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) includes the following executive summary and four overarching recommendations.
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A draft guidance document by the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee recommended three process measures for mandatory public reporting systems on health care-associated infections.
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A draft guidance document by the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee recommended two outcome measures for mandatory public reporting systems on health care-associated infections. The draft lists the following details on the those selections, including measures, rationale for inclusion, and potential limitations.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has set patient safety goals for 2005 that include several high-profile infection control issues. The goals include high compliance with hand hygiene; reducing influenza and pneumonia in long-term care; and a continuation of the controversial edict to investigate patient deaths linked to nosocomial infections.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has set a 2005 patient safety goal for long-term settings to reduce the risk of influenza and pneumococcal disease. ICPs in such settings should develop and implement a protocol for administration and documentation of both the influenza vaccine and the pneumococcal vaccine.
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Previous studies have suggested aseptic loosing of joint prostheses may be caused by infection with nonculturable bacteria. This study found that PCR testing of operative specimens for bacterial 16s RNA did not identify the presence of bacteria if adequate microbiologic processing of specimens was performed and was negative.
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While hailed as a patient measure, some question whether mandatory infection-rate disclosure laws will create data graveyards that will drain scarce resources from infection control programs.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has determined that the laboratory is an essential service, meaning failure in the laboratory extends to failure in the hospital, advises compliance consultant Dave Woodard, CIC, CLS, manager of Infection Control and Laboratory Services in Fountain Valley, CA.
