| National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS)/National Healthcare Safety
Network (NHSN) |
United States |
4 components: (i) patient safety (5 modules: surveillance of
devices, surveillance of procedures, surveillance of medicines, multiresistant
microorganisms, vaccination); (ii) health workers’ safety; (iii) biosurveillance;
(iv) research and development |
Voluntary, mandatory in some States |
http://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/ |
| Hospital In Europe Link for Infection Control through Surveillance (HELICS) |
Europe |
3 priority surveillance targets: (i) ICU infections in intensive
care; (ii) infections in surgical patients; (iii) prevalence studies on HAI |
Voluntary |
http://helics.univ-lyon1.fr/home.htm |
| Preventie van Ziekenhuisinfecties door Surveillance (PREZIES) |
Netherlands |
5 surveillance modules, four of which for incidence studies
(post-op infections, surgical wound infections in post-cardiac surgery patients,
sepsis, and ventilator-associated pneumonia) and one module for prevalence
studies |
Voluntary |
http://www.prezies.nl/ |
| Krankenhaus Infektions Surveillance System (KISS) |
Germany |
9 surveillance components: (i) ICU patients (ITS-KISS); (ii)
surgical patients (OP-KISS); (iii) premature infants in neonatal intensive care
units (NEO-KISS); (iv) bone marrow transplant patients (ONKO-KISS); (v)
outpatients (AMBU-KISS); (vi) patients with specific invasive procedures –central
venous catheters, mechanical ventilation – in non-intensive care units
(KISS-DEVICE); (vii) hand hygiene with alcohol-based solutions (HAND-KISS); (viii)
Clostridium difficile- associated diseases (CDAD-KISS); (ix) methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA-KISS) |
Voluntary |
http://www.nrz-hygiene.de/surveillance/kiss/ |
| Surveillance of Hospital Infections, Argentina (VIHDA) |
Argentina |
3 surveillance components: (i) institutional diagnosis; (ii)
surveillance of critical and surgical areas; (iii) prevalence studies |
Voluntary |
http://www.vihda.gov.ar/ |
| Victorian Nosocomial Infections Surveillance Systems (VICNISS) |
State of Victoria, Australia |
2 surveillance methods: (i) type 1, large hospitals, with 7
modules: surgical site infections, intensive care, neonatal intensive care,
antibiotic prophylaxis in surgery, incidence in hemodialysis, S. aureus
bacteremia, C. difficile infections; (ii) type 2, small hospitals, with 3 modules:
process indicators, surgical site infections, and infections related to selected
events |
Mandatory in public hospitals |
http://www.vicniss.org.au/ |
