The Minimum Data Set and Quality Indicators for National Healthcare-Associated Infection Surveillance in Mainland China: Towards Precision Management

Table 1

Summary of the Minimum Data Set and Quality Indicators for national healthcare-associated infection surveillance.

Data set	Data item	Number of data elements (n=70) and indicators (n=64)	Data element and indicator examples
MDS	Basic	12	Gender, Admission date
	Birth	2	Birth date, Birth weight
	Diagnosis	10	Admission diagnosis, Pathologic diagnosis
	Treatment	20	Operation date, ASA score
	Microbiology	14	Specimen, Antibacterial
	Vital sign	4	Temperature, Diarrhea
	HCAI reporting	8	HCAI type, Outcome
QIs	Infection	6	HCAI rate, Prevalence rate
	Surgical	3	Surgical site infection rate
	Device-related	6	Ventilator-associated Pneumonia
	Neonate	6	HCAI rate in neonate
	Bacterial resistance	10	Multidrug-resistant bacterial infection rate
	Antibiotic use	20	Utilization rate of antibiotics
	On-site-inspection	13	Omission Rate of HCAI

MDS, Minimum Data Set; QIs, Quality Indicators; HCAI, Healthcare-associated Infection; ASA, American Society of Anesthesiologists. Detailed introduction could be found in the dedicated book “Guidelines for the implementation of basic data sets and quality control indicators for Healthcare-associated infections surveillance”.