Uniform national numerator definitions for infection control clinical indicators: surgical site infection and health-care related bloodstream infection
E. Auricht, J. Borgert, M. Butler, H. Cadwallader, P. Collignon, M. Eades, J. Ferguson, R. Kampen, D. Looke, D. Macbeth, M.-L. Mclaws, D. Olesen, M. Pawsey, M. Richards, T. Riley, P. Sykes and M. Whitby
Australian Infection Control
4(4) 12 - 14
Published: 1999
Abstract
The concept of national surveillance of health-care-related infection is not new - programs have been implemented in the USA and a number of European countries over the past two decades. Proposals for a similar program in Australia have been hampered by a lack of government support. However, recent interest in adverse health-care related outcomes, both federally and in many of the states, has encouraged moves toward a national surveillance strategy.https://doi.org/10.1071/HI99412
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