Dialysis Data Reports

CDC helps the dialysis community prevent infections by providing evidence-based guidelines and access to the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN), a surveillance system that allows facilities to track infections. The information collected about process measures, such as the number of catheters and fistulas used, and outcomes, such as infections, can be used to evaluate and improve performance locally, statewide, and nationally. In addition, surveillance allows CDC to see national trends and direct prevention efforts for the country.

Dialysis Surveillance Reports: NHSN and DSN

• Dialysis Surveillance Report: National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN)—Data Summary for 2006 pdf icon[PDF – 214 KB]Seminars in Dialysis—Vol 21, No 1 (January–February) 2008 pp. 24–28
• Electronic reporting of infections associated with hemodialysis pdf icon[PDF – 237 KB] June 2005
  Nephrology News
• New national surveillance system for hemodialysis-associated infections: initial results pdf icon[PDF – 137 KB]

National Survey of Dialysis-associated Diseases

• National Surveillance of Dialysis-Associated Diseases in the United States, 2002 pdf icon[PDF – 218 KB]
• National Surveillance of Dialysis-Associated Diseases in the United States, 2001 pdf icon[PDF – 261 KB]
• National Surveillance of Dialysis-Associated Diseases in the United States, 1999 pdf icon[PDF – 311 KB]
• National Surveillance of Dialysis-Associated Diseases in the United States, 1997 pdf icon[PDF – 192 KB]

Dialysis-associated Infections

• Vital Signs: Central Line–Associated Blood Stream Infections — United States, 2001, 2008, and 2009 MMWR March 4, 2011 / 60(08);243-248
• Invasive Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections Among Dialysis Patients, United States, 2005 MMWR March 9, 2007;56(09);197-199

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