
%0 Journal Article
%A Auricht, E. 
%A Borgert, J. 
%A Butler, M. 
%A Cadwallader, H. 
%A Collignon, P. 
%A Eades, M. 
%A Ferguson, J. 
%A Kampen, R. 
%A Looke, D. 
%A Macbeth, D. 
%A Mclaws, M.-L. 
%A Olesen, D. 
%A Pawsey, M. 
%A Richards, M. 
%A Riley, T. 
%A Sykes, P. 
%A Whitby, M. 
%T Uniform national numerator definitions for infection control clinical indicators:
surgical site infection and health-care related bloodstream infection
%J Healthcare Infection
%D 1999/12/01
%V 4
%N 4
%P 12-14
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/HI99412
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HI99412 
%X 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. 
