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NATIONAL NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM (NNIS)
Description:
The National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) System is a cooperative effort that began in 1970 between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and participating hospitals to create a national nosocomial infections database. The database is used to describe the epidemiology of nosocomial infections, describe antimicrobial resistance trends, and produce nosocomial infection rates to use for comparison purposes.
Record Details:
Record Type:DATA SET
Product Published Date:01/14/2004
Record Last Revised:05/09/2005
Record ID:
132453