Newsletters

• December 2012 NHSN Newsletter [PDF - 407 KB] Inside This Issue - Information about the Outpatient Dialysis Center Practices Survey and NHSN changes for 2013, as well as a tribute to Teresa Horan as she retires from CDC at the end of this year.
• September 2012- NHSN Newsletter [PDF - 650 KB] Inside This Issue—Information about the new module for reporting HCP Influenza Vaccination, reminders about requirements for CMS's various quality reporting programs, and updates about the Biovigilance Component of NHSN.
• September 2012- NHSN Special Edition: VAE Protocol for Adults [PDF - 408 KB] Inside This Issue—The Ventilator-Associated Event (VAE) Surveillance protocol for adults.
• June 2012 - NHSN Newsletter [PDF - 431 KB] Inside This Issue - Upcoming Changes to NHSN in Release 7.0, Biovigilance Component and more...
• March 2012 - NHSN Newsletter [PDF - 466 KB] Inside This Issue - NHSN Announces Updates to the Hemovigilance Module, Reminders and Tips for Participants in CMS’s Hospital IQR Program and more...

2011

• June 2011 [PDF - 243 KB] Ensuring Your CLABSI Data Get to CMS
  Conferring Rights Functionality, Medication-associated Module is Relaunched, Biovigilance Updates
  and more...
• March 2011 [PDF - 232 KB] Denominator Simplification Project Update, Primary vs. Secondary BSI

2010 - 2008

• October 2010 [PDF - 374 KB] CMS Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program
  NHSN Puroses and Confidentiality Assurance Changes
  NHSN Application Updates
• October 2010: Special Edition [PDF - 538 KB] Updated December 2010.
  Your Guide to the Standardized Infection Ratio
  Central Line-associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI) SIRs
  Surgical Site Infection (SSI) SIRs
  Samples of SIR Output and List of SIR Risk Factors
• July 2010 [PDF - 587 KB] Biovigilance Component Updates
  Case Studies
  Patient Safety Manual and Document Updates
  Spotlight: CDC/DHQP Visits Facilities in Oregon
  Questions and Answers
• April 2010 [PDF - 247KB] ARRA CDC Funding
  Healthcare Personnel Safety
  Prevent Infections in Hemodialysis
  Hemovigilance
  Questions and Answers
  What is SAIC?
  
• December 2009 [PDF - 274KB] Updates to ICD-9-CM
  Updated High Risk Inpatient Influenza Vaccination
  NHSN drops CSEP Requirement
  Digital Certificate Renewals
  
  
• August 2009 NHSN Focuses on Quality Assurance [PDF - 113KB] A Rale is Just a Rale…or is it?
  Can’t Generate Aggregate CAUTI Data?
  Case of the Missing Manual
  Questions and Answers
  Digital Certificate Renewals
  
  
• May 2009 NHSN Announces New Website [PDF - 218KB] NHSN Members Meeting
  Corrected UC-associated BSI Rates
  Saving Keystrokes When Entering SSI Events
  Need to Enroll Another Facility?
  NHSN Releases Version 4.0.2.7
  UTI Reminder
  Questions and Answers
  
  
• Feb 2009 Sessions at the SHEA Conference [PDF - 369KB] NHSN Helpdesk Tips
  Changing Your Email Address
  Annual Facility Surveys
  Reassignment of Facility Administrator
  
  
• Winter 2008 2000 Facilities Enrolled [PDF - 275KB] Updated Operative Procedure Codes
  Need help with specific event criteria?
  Annual Facility Surveys
  New NHSN Facility Administrator
  Reminders about Digital Certificates
  Implant and Transplant Definitions
  
  
• Summer 2008 NHSN Member Meetings [PDF - 95KB] New Version of NHSN Coming Soon
  NHSN Contact Information
  Inactive Users
  Protocol Pointers
  Use ID# when requesting assistance
  SHEA/CDC Epidemiology Course
  NHSN Statistics – July 24, 2008
  
  
• Spring 2008 NHSN Member Meetings [PDF - 78.27KB] NHSN Member Meetings
  NHSN Publications
  Monthly Data Reporting Requirement
  Setting the “Date Variable” option in analysis
  Protocol Pointers
  NHSN Statistics - March 31, 2008
  
• January 2008 Revised LCBI Definition [PDF - 131KB] Central Line Insertion Practices (CLIP) measure coming soon!
  Changing your email address
  Conferring rights to Survey data in a Group
  Protocol Pointers
  Attribution of SSIs
  Pneumonia and secondary BSI