Newsletters / Members Meeting Updates

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

2010 - 2008

• October 2010 [PDF - 374 KB] Inside This Issue - CMS Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program, NHSN Puroses and Confidentiality Assurance Changes, NHSN Application Updates
• October 2010: Special Edition [PDF - 538 KB] Inside This Issue - 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] Inside This Issue - Biovigilance Component Updates, Case Studies, Patient Safety Manual and Document Updates, Spotlight: CDC/DHQP Visits Facilities in Oregon and Questions and Answers
• April 2010 [PDF - 247KB] Inside This Issue - ARRA CDC Funding, Healthcare Personnel Safety, Prevent Infections in Hemodialysis, Hemovigilance, Questions and Answers and What is SAIC?
• December 2009 [PDF - 274KB] Inside This Issue - Updates to ICD-9-CM, Updated High Risk Inpatient Influenza Vaccination, NHSN drops CSEP Requirement and Digital Certificate Renewals
• August 2009 NHSN Focuses on Quality Assurance [PDF - 113KB] Inside This Issue - A Rale is Just a Rale…or is it? Can’t Generate Aggregate CAUTI Data? Case of the Missing Manual, Questions and Answers and Digital Certificate Renewals
• May 2009 NHSN Announces New Website [PDF - 218KB] Inside This Issue - 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] Inside This Issue - NHSN Helpdesk Tips, Changing Your Email Address, Annual Facility Surveys, Reassignment of Facility Administrator,
  
• Winter 2008 2000 Facilities Enrolled [PDF - 275KB] Inside This Issue - Updated Operative Procedure Codes, Need help with specific event criteria?, Annual Facility Surveys, New NHSN Facility Administrator, Reminders about Digital Certificates and Implant and Transplant Definitions
• Summer 2008 NHSN Member Meetings [PDF - 95KB] Inside This Issue - New Version of NHSN Coming Soon, NHSN Contact Information, Inactive Users, Protocol Pointers, Use ID# when requesting assistance, SHEA/CDC Epidemiology Course and NHSN Statistics – July 24, 2008
• Spring 2008 NHSN Member Meetings [PDF - 78.27KB] Inside This Issue - NHSN Member Meetings, NHSN Publications, Monthly Data Reporting Requirement, Setting the “Date Variable” option in analysis, Protocol Pointers and NHSN Statistics - March 31, 2008
• January 2008 Revised LCBI Definition [PDF - 131KB] Inside This Issue - 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 and Pneumonia and secondary BSI