Volume 7, Number 2—April 2001
THEME ISSUE
4th Decennial International Conference on Nosocomial and Healthcare-Associated Infections
State of the Art
Feeding Back Surveillance Data To Prevent Hospital-Acquired Infections
Robert Gaynes
, Chesley Richards, Jonathan Edwards, T. Grace Emori, Teresa Horan, Juan Alonso-Echanove, Scott Fridkin, Rachel Lawton, Gloria Peavy, James Tolson, and the National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) System Hospitals
, Chesley Richards, Jonathan Edwards, T. Grace Emori, Teresa Horan, Juan Alonso-Echanove, Scott Fridkin, Rachel Lawton, Gloria Peavy, James Tolson, and the National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) System HospitalsTable 1
Estimates of accuracy of prospectively reported infections in nine NNIS Hospitalsa
| Predictive value | Sensitivity | Specificity | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infection site | positive (%) | (%) | (%) |
| Bloodstream | 87 | 85 | 98.3 |
| Pneumonia | 89 | 68 | 97.8 |
| Surgical site | 72 | 67 | 97.7 |
| Urinary tract | 92 | 59 | 98.7 |
| Other | 80 | 30 | 98.6 |
aAdapted from Emori TG, et al. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol (17).
