The U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services released proposed targets and metrics for the National Action Plan to
Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections, as virtually all of the previous
targets and metrics expired December 2013.
A
national stakeholder meeting was held in September 2013 and helped shape the
proposed targets along with a federal steering committee of HAI prevention
experts from federal agencies.
The
proposed targets would set 2015 as the new baseline, with the exception of
invasive MRSA, which was included in the federal government’s Healthy People
2020 goals and has an existing 2007-2008 baseline, which has not expired.
This
table outlines the proposed new targets for 2020, alongside the most recent
progress on the measures to date. The proposed metrics can also be viewed here.
