National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) System
Revision of a currently approved collection
No
Regular
Approved without change
09/12/2000
06/26/2000
table that charts list comparision
Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
09/30/2003
09/30/2003
09/30/2000
92,542
0
3,948
71,259
0
344,499
100,000
0
450,000
The purpose of the NNIS System is to provide national data on the incidence of nonsocomial infections and their risk factors, and on merging antibiotic resistance. The dat are used to determine the magnitude of various nosocomila infection problems and trends in infection rates among patients with similar risks. They are used to detect changes in the epidemiology of nonocomial infections resulting from new medical therapies and changing patient risks. New to the NNIS system is the monitoring of antibiotic resistance and antimicrobial use in groups of patients to describe the epidemiology of antibiotic...
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