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Objectives Moved From Another Healthy People Topic Area
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Reduce central line–associated bloodstream infections.
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Status: Moved from Healthy People 2010 Focus Area: Immunization and Infectious Diseases 14-20b.
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Objective Clarification:
Ohio does not currently have access to NHSN although it is planned. Ohio hospitals are not currently required to participate in NHSN. This is a continuation from 2010 and should remain. Ohio hospitals can be urged and encouraged to monitor through NHSN. ODH could play a more supportive role in getting hospitals to sign up.
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Objective Clarification:
The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology (SHEA) wish to thank you for the opportunity to comment on Healthy People 2020 Objectives for Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI).
APIC and SHEA support grouping the healthcare-associated infection objectives in their own topic area. We believe this highlights the importance of these objectives, and calls attention to the expanding need to address these infections as part of the Healthy People 2020 goal of improving the health of all Americans.
We also agree with the coordination of these objectives with the metrics and 5-year reduction targets outlined in the HHS Action Plan to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections. It is important that national alignment of metrics and targets is achieved in order to best direct resources and improvement efforts. APIC and SHEA also welcome the opportunity to work with HHS to provide feedback and updates as warranted.
Further, APIC and SHEA agree on the continued inclusion of central line-associated bloodstream infections. We applaud the use of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as a data source for this objective, in order to use a national database as a standard for measurement development, supporting appropriate direction of resources and improvement efforts.
APIC and SHEA strongly support highlighting efforts to eliminate HAIs as part of national health promotion and disease prevention objectives by inclusion of a topic area dedicated to this issue in Healthy People 2020. We appreciate the opportunity to provide comments, and we look forward to continuing our collaboration with HHS.
Christine Nutty, RN, MSN, CIC
2009 APIC President
Mark E. Rupp, MD
SHEA President
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All healthcare acquired infections should be included.
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ASHP strongly supports the expansion of HP2010-14-20b objective to reduction of preventable healthcare-associated infections beyond intensive care patients to include all patients. However, the Society encourages inclusion of other types of HAI that were previously included in HP2010–14-20 but are not covered in HAI-1 and HAI-2 (i.e. catheter-associated urinary tract infection and ventilator-associated pneumonia).
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