Since the new year, health systems with certain filing requirements have had to submit antibiotic use and resistance data under new rules issued by the CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN). For such facilities, the clock is ticking on one key provision: submitting 180 days of continuous tracking data.
“We are really encouraging people to get on this now,” said Capt. Arjun Srinivasan, MD, FSHEA, USPHS, a medical epidemiologist at the CDC.