The NNIS System was established in 1970 when selected hospitals in the United States routinely HRNbegan reporting their nosocomial infection surveillance data for aggregation into a national database. Hospitals participating in the NNIS System provide general medical-surgical inpatient services to adults or chil­

The National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System (NNIS) is an ongoing collaborative surveillance system sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to obtain national data on nosocomial infections. The CDC uses the data that are reported voluntarily by participating hospitals to estimat …

The NNIS system establishes a national risk-adjusted benchmark for nosocomial infection rates and invasive device-use ratios (12,13) by using uniform case definitions

To better meet the need for outcome measures from targeted surveillance, CDC's National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance (NNIS) System -- the only source of national data on the epidemiology of nosocomial infections in the United States -- …

National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) is a voluntary, hospital-based reporting system established to monitor hospital-acquired infections and to guide the prevention efforts of infection control practitioners (ICPs). The NNIS approach may be a model for future programs aimed at preventing other adverse patient events (2). This ...

2011年5月10日 · The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC's) National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) system has been serving as an aggregating institution for 30 years. The NNIS system is a voluntary, hospital-based reporting system established to monitor hospital-acquired infections and guide the prevention efforts of infection control ...

National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) System Report, data summary from January 1992 through June 2004, issued October 2004 Am J Infect Control . 2004 Dec;32(8):470-85. doi: 10.1016/S0196655304005425.

Over the past 25 years, CDC’s National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) sys-tem has received monthly reports of nosocomial infections from a nonrandom sample of United States hospitals; more than 270 institutions report. The nosocomial infection rate has remained remarkably stable (approximately five to six hospital-acquired ...

Criterion 1: Patient has at least one of the following signs or symptoms with no other recognized cause: fever (>38°C), urgency, frequency, dysuria, or suprapubic tenderness and patient has a positive urine culture, that is, >10 5 microorganisms per …

2005年5月9日 · The National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) System is a cooperative effort that began in 1970 between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and participating hospitals to create a national nosocomial infections database.