
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Auricht, E. 
A1  - Borgert, J. 
A1  - Butler, M. 
A1  - Cadwallader, H. 
A1  - Collignon, P. 
A1  - Eades, M. 
A1  - Ferguson, J. 
A1  - Kampen, R. 
A1  - Looke, D. 
A1  - Macbeth, D. 
A1  - Mclaws, M.-L. 
A1  - Olesen, D. 
A1  - Pawsey, M. 
A1  - Richards, M. 
A1  - Riley, T. 
A1  - Sykes, P. 
A1  - Whitby, M. 
T1  - Uniform national numerator definitions for infection control clinical indicators:
surgical site infection and health-care related bloodstream infection
JF  - Healthcare Infection
JO  - Healthcare Infection
Y1  - 1999
VL  - 4
IS  - 4
SP  - 12
EP  - 14
KW  - 
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/HI99412 
N2  - The concept of national surveillance of health-care-related infection is not new - programs have been implemented in the USA and a number of European countries over the past two decades. Proposals for a similar program in Australia have been hampered by a lack of government support. However, recent interest in adverse health-care related outcomes, both federally and in many of the states, has encouraged moves toward a national surveillance strategy. 
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