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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INFECTION CONTROL
卷 29, 期 6, 页码 400-403出版社
MOSBY, INC
DOI: 10.1067/mic.2001.118408
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The National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) system is the oldest and largest monitoring system for health care-acquired infections in the United States. This report describes both the characteristics of NNIS hospitals compared with those of US hospitals with 100 beds or more and their infection control programs. Overall, NNIS hospitals tend to have more hospital beds than the average for-comparable US hospitals. The majority of NNIS hospitals have affiliations with academic medical centers, and most have substantial intensive care units. Even though infection control professionals in NNIS hospitals spend most of their time in inpatient settings, 40% of their time is also spent in a variety of other settings, including home health, outpatient surgery or clinics, extended care facilities. employee health and quality management, and other clinical or administrative activities. As described in this report, the infrastructure of the NNIS system offers a national resource on which to build improved voluntary patient safety monitoring efforts, as outlined in the recent Institute of Medicine report on medical errors.
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