Additional Resources about Healthcare-Associated Infections

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 2009 Funded Projects to Prevent Health Care-Associated Infections http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/haify09.htm This link provides a fact sheet with a list of funded HAI research projects for Fiscal Year 2009.
  • Additional information on HAIs, including information related to the Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety Program (CUSP), is available at http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/hais.htm .

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Frequently Asked Questions about Specific HAIs
  http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dhqp/HAI_shea_idsa.html
  This site also includes fact sheets for the six most common HAIs.
  • Additional information on HAIs is available at
    http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dhqp/healthDis.html

• SHEA/IDSA Healthcare-Associated Infection Prevention Compendium Patient Guides
  http://www.shea-online.org/about/compendium.cfm  
  The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) sponsored and authored a compendium of practice recommendations to prevent healthcare-associated infections in acute care hospitals in partnership with the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), the Joint Commission, and the American Hospital Association (AHA). The compendium is available for download.

Seminal Reports on Healthcare-Associated Infections

• To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System
  http://www.iom.edu/~/media/Files/Report%20Files/1999/To-Err-is-Human/To%20Err%20is%20Human%201999%20%20report%20brief.ashx This link offers a brief summary of the Institute of Medicine’s landmark 1999 report.
  
• Health-care-Associated Infections in Hospitals: Leadership Needed from HHS to Prioritize Prevention Practices and Improve Data on These Infections
  http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08673t.pdf  This link provides the U.S. Government Accountability Office’s April 2008 report that originally outlined national challenges presented by HAIs and offered opportunities for HHS to improve its response and national coordination.

For more information regarding healthcare-associated infections, contact:

Agnes Balla at Agnes.Balla@hhs.gov, (202) 205-5320 (phone), or (202) 690-7425 (fax).

Danielle Doughman at Danielle.Doughman@hhs.gov, (202) 690-6476 (phone), or (202) 690-7425 (fax)

Daniel Gallardo at Daniel.Gallardo@hhs.gov, (202) 690-2470 (phone), or (202) 690-7425 (fax)

Rani Jeeva at Rani.Jeeva@hhs.gov, (202) 205-5245 (phone), or (202) 690-7425 (fax)