The National Healthcare Safety Network's digital quality measures: CDC's automated measures for surveillance of patient safety.
Shehab N, Alschuler L, McILvenna S, et al. The National Healthcare Safety Network’s digital quality measures: CDC’s automated measures for surveillance of patient safety. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2024;31(5):1199-1205. doi:10.1093/jamia/ocae064.
The National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) tracks healthcare-associated infections as well as improvement efforts. This article describes NHSN use of digital quality measures (dQMs) and other online resources to reduce the reporting burden and improve the quality of surveillance data.