Public gets early snapshot of MRSA and C.difficile infections in individual hospitals
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sent this bulletin at 12/13/2013 03:47 PM ESTNew data posted yesterday and gathered through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) gives patients a first look at how their local hospitals are doing at preventing Clostridium difficile infections (deadly diarrhea) and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bloodstream infections. This information, as well as other hospital performance measures, is collected as part of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) Program and is publicly available on the Hospital Compare website.
The numbers represent only the first quarter of 2013; measurements of how hospitals are doing will be more precise and provide a more complete picture as more information is collected over time. The next update, which will represent six months of data, is scheduled for April 2014.
For more information about this important CDC and CMS collaboration to advance public reporting of hospital quality indicators, read the full press release at: http://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2013/p1212-mrsa-cdifficile.html.
The numbers represent only the first quarter of 2013; measurements of how hospitals are doing will be more precise and provide a more complete picture as more information is collected over time. The next update, which will represent six months of data, is scheduled for April 2014.
For more information about this important CDC and CMS collaboration to advance public reporting of hospital quality indicators, read the full press release at: http://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2013/p1212-mrsa-cdifficile.html.
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