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Public Disclosure of Healthcare-Associated Infections: The Role of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Edward S. Wong ,
Mark E. Rupp ,
Leonard Mermel ,
Trish M. Perl ,
Suzanne Bradley ,
Keith M. Ramsey ,
Belinda Ostrowsky ,
August J. Valenti ,
John A. Jernigan  and
Andreas Voss
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Edward S. Wong
Affiliation:
McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center and theMedical College of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
Mark E. Rupp
Affiliation:
University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska
Leonard Mermel
Affiliation:
Brown Medical School, Providence, Rhode Island
Trish M. Perl
Affiliation:
Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, Baltimore, Maryland
Suzanne Bradley
Affiliation:
Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor and theUniversity of Michigan Healthcare Systems, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Keith M. Ramsey
Affiliation:
University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama
Belinda Ostrowsky
Affiliation:
Westchester County Department of Health, New Rochelle, New York
August J. Valenti
Affiliation:
Maine Medical Center, Portland, Maine
John A. Jernigan
Affiliation:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
Andreas Voss
Affiliation:
Canisius-Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Michael L. Tapper
Affiliation:
Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, New York
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Prior to 2004, only two states, Pennsylvania and Illinois, had enacted legislation requiring healthcare facilities to collect nosocomial or healthcare-associated infection (HAI) data intended for public disclosure. In 2004, two additional states, Missouri and Florida, passed disclosure laws. Currently, several other states are considering similar legislation. In California, Senate Bill 1487 requiring hospitals to collect HAI data and report them to the Office of Statewide Health Planning was passed by the legislature, but was not signed into law by Governor Schwarzenegger, effectively vetoing it. The impetus for these laws is complex. Support comes from consumer advocates, who argue that the public has the right to be informed, and from others who view HAI as preventable and hope that public disclosure would provide an incentive to healthcare providers and institutions to improve their care.

Type
SHEA Position Paper
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , February 2005 , pp. 210 - 212
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2005

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