Health care...associated infections studies project: An American Journal of Infection Control and National Health Care Safety Network data quality collaboration case study..÷Laboratory-identified event reporting validation.

ABSTRACT

This case study is part of a series centered on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) health care...associated infection surveillance definitions. This specific case study focuses on the application of the common surveillance concepts included in Laboratory-Identified Event Reporting (Chapter 12 of the NHSN Patient Safety Manual..÷Multidrug-Resistant Organism & Clostridioides difficile Infection Module) used with validation efforts. The intent of the case study series is to foster standardized application of the NHSN surveillance definitions and encourage accurate event determination among infection preventionists.