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Bacteremia and Fungemia Surveillance Module
AT A GLANCE
- This module supports an electronic health record (EHR)-neutral standard for reporting patient-level blood culture and medication data using digital Quality Measures (dQMs).
- Data enables identification of Bacteremia & Fungemia events by the NHSN application.
- Generates reports for Bacteremia & Fungemia event rates for the facility.
Objectives of the Bacteremia and Fungemia Surveillance Module
- Provide U.S. hospitals with bacteremia and fungemia measurement to support quality improvement and improve patient safety.
- Contribute to benchmarking of bacteremia and fungemia metrics across U.S. hospitals and evaluate national trends over time.
Benefits of the Bacteremia and Fungemia Surveillance Module
- Supports calculation of the Hospital-onset Bacteremia & Fungemia Outcome Measure
- Future versions of the module will support calculation of Adult Blood Culture Contamination Rate
Facilities
The Bacteremia and Fungemia Surveillance Module is currently available to select U.S. hospitals participating in the NHSNCoLab.
*In the future, all inpatient facilities enrolled in the Patient Safety Component and compliant with Health Level Seven International® (HL7) FHIR standards will be eligible to participate. Facilities that are not currently participating in the NHSNCoLab can start to prepare to become FHIR Ready.
Data Submission
Facilities work with their EHR vendors to enable data transmission via the NHSN FHIR application (NHSNLink). NHSNLink connects directly to a facility’s EHR to collect patient-level data.
- Module requires FHIR vR4.0.1 or higher.
- Data are transmitted to NHSN via NHSNLink.
- Manual data entry, Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) data and CSV file transmission are not available for this module.
Data Analysis
The NHSN application calculates summary bacteremia & fungemia metrics and patient-level event determinations based on data submitted. NHSN provides these data to the participating facility via analysis reports in the NHSN application.
Training and Education
Coming Soon.
dQM Resource Center
Additional resources for the Bacteremia and Fungemia Surveillance Module will be added to the NHSN dQM Resource Center in the future.
