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Healthcare-associated infections in Australia: tackling the 'known unknowns'

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posted on 2024-06-04, 09:39 authored by PL Russo, AC Cheng, BG Mitchell, L Hall
© AHHA. Australia does not have a national healthcare-associated infection (HAI) surveillance program. Without national surveillance, we do not understand the burden of HAIs, nor can we accurately assess the effects of national infection prevention initiatives. Recent research has demonstrated disparity between existing jurisdictional-based HAI surveillance activity while also identifying broad key stakeholder support for the establishment of a national program. A uniform surveillance program will also address growing concerns about hospital performance measurements and enable public reporting of hospital data.

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Journal

Australian health review

Volume

42

Pagination

178-180

Location

Clayton, Vic.

ISSN

0156-5788

eISSN

0159-5709

Language

eng

Publication classification

C Journal article, C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2017, AHHA

Issue

2

Publisher

CSIRO Publishing

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