Monitoring Healthcare - Associated Infections at the National Level

Controlling hospital acquired infections is a great example of value based care, because lowering infections improves outcomes and lower costs. Hence improving value provided to patients (and owners).

This an excellent presentation where Dr Dawn Sievert from CDC talked about the creation of the NHSN.

There is a lot we can learn in animal health from this experience and what the challenges and opportunities were.

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