Pilot testing standardized surveillance: hospital infection standardised surveillance(HISS)

摘要

In Australia the time-consuming nature of double handling of surveillance data has meant that surveillance methodology rarely included prospective monitoring of patients at risk for the acquisition of nosocomial infection. To streamline surveillance activities, infection control professionals favored the collection of case data either from the ward or pathology laboratories. By default, this method introduced a variety of definitions result- ing in inconsistencies across health care facilities and artificial fluctuations in the magnitude of infection.