question re NSW HAI “Help us beat Infections” sign

[Lindy Ryan]

Dear all
just a question for my NSW ICP colleagues out there.
We are in the process of distributing and using the newly released “Help
us Beat Infections” posters we were recently sent for us to join in
with the rest of the state public facility’s in displaying the one
standard hand hygiene results posters for each of our wards however i
have a question that i am hoping for some consensus on as i have been
unable to get any standard answer to date in my calls around (& maybe I
am not understanding the instructions we were sent ..maybe I am just
having a slow day?)
Q1. In the section where we are asked to enter our BSI rate what are
folks entering?
I am assuming this figure it would be NSW CI 2.1 & 2.2 (HA SABSI)????
given we all collect it (I have had this feedback form another iCP which
sounds fair)
Q2. where it indicates to add your quarterly rate what is everyone
putting in this section
I would be assuming then that we use the last 3 months worth of 2.1 &
2.2 numerators & denominators and divide by 3 to get our quarterly rate
to provide a figure each month for our managers to add to this chart

I would be interested to hear what other from NSW sites are doing …or
if I have it totally wrong and I can locate our quarterly BSI rate else
where or work it out differently. Adding our HH scores is the easy bit
..it the BSI i am not clear on so any thoughts on what you guys in NSW
are doing would be greatly appreciated
thanks
Lindy

Lindy Ryan

Clinical Nurse Consultant | Infection Control Services, Nepean Hospital.
Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District PO Box 63 Penrith NSW
2751Tel 02 4734 2228 | Fax 02 4734 2517 |
lindy.ryan@swahs.health.nsw.gov.au
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[Paul Smollen]

Dear Lindy,

As the CEC are the creators of the poster, I thought I might be able to
provide you with an answer.

The data to be displayed for the BSI is NSW Clinical Indicator SABSI 2.1
and 2.2. It was just given the title “Blood Stream Infection” to
simplify so the general public could understand.

It is up to each facility how they want to display the SABSI data, so a
facility can choose to use their monthly data and change the insert each
month or use quarterly data or even year to date figures.

You may even choose 3 times a year to coincide with the Hand Hygiene
data. Apart from the monthly figure you should have a year to date rate
as well. It may be appropriate to use the year to date rate when it is
time to update the poster insert which should be a minimum 3 times a
year.

Hope this has made it a little clearer. Happy for the NSW clinicians to
contact me to further discuss if there is still confusion.

Paul Smollen

Project Manager, Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI)

Clinical Excellence Commission | Level 14/227 Elizabeth Street, Sydney
NSW 2000

T: (02) 9269 5586 |F: (02) 9269 5599 | E:
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Behalf Of Lindy Ryan

Dear all

just a question for my NSW ICP colleagues out there.

We are in the process of distributing and using the newly released “Help
us Beat Infections” posters we were recently sent for us to join in
with the rest of the state public facility’s in displaying the one
standard hand hygiene results posters for each of our wards however i
have a question that i am hoping for some consensus on as i have been
unable to get any standard answer to date in my calls around (& maybe I
am not understanding the instructions we were sent ..maybe I am just
having a slow day?)

Q1. In the section where we are asked to enter our BSI rate what are
folks entering?

I am assuming this figure it would be NSW CI 2.1 & 2.2 (HA SABSI)????
given we all collect it (I have had this feedback form another iCP which
sounds fair)

Q2. where it indicates to add your quarterly rate what is everyone
putting in this section

I would be assuming then that we use the last 3 months worth of 2.1 &
2.2 numerators & denominators and divide by 3 to get our quarterly rate
to provide a figure each month for our managers to add to this chart

I would be interested to hear what other from NSW sites are doing …or
if I have it totally wrong and I can locate our quarterly BSI rate else
where or work it out differently. Adding our HH scores is the easy bit
..it the BSI i am not clear on so any thoughts on what you guys in NSW
are doing would be greatly appreciated

thanks

Lindy

Lindy Ryan

Clinical Nurse Consultant | Infection Control Services, Nepean Hospital.
Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District PO Box 63 Penrith NSW
2751Tel 02 4734 2228 | Fax 02 4734 2517 |
lindy.ryan@swahs.health.nsw.gov.au
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[Kathy Dempsey]

Hi Lindy,
this is exactly what we have decided to do here at Westmead around SABSI rates. the HH data although easy to collect does not seem rational we are comparing quarterly BSI to what appears to be monthly HH compliance? We are choosing to put up the compliance rate for the same quarter that the BSI represents. All in all whilst the posters are a good idea for displaying information to public there are some deficiencies with the poster and data input as it stands.
cheers
Kathy & Jo

Kathy Dempsey
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>>> Lindy Ryan 11/20/2012 12:49 pm >>>
Dear all
just a question for my NSW ICP colleagues out there.
We are in the process of distributing and using the newly released “Help
us Beat Infections” posters we were recently sent for us to join in
with the rest of the state public facility’s in displaying the one
standard hand hygiene results posters for each of our wards however i
have a question that i am hoping for some consensus on as i have been
unable to get any standard answer to date in my calls around (& maybe I
am not understanding the instructions we were sent ..maybe I am just
having a slow day?)
Q1. In the section where we are asked to enter our BSI rate what are
folks entering?
I am assuming this figure it would be NSW CI 2.1 & 2.2 (HA SABSI)????
given we all collect it (I have had this feedback form another iCP which
sounds fair)
Q2. where it indicates to add your quarterly rate what is everyone
putting in this section
I would be assuming then that we use the last 3 months worth of 2.1 &
2.2 numerators & denominators and divide by 3 to get our quarterly rate
to provide a figure each month for our managers to add to this chart

I would be interested to hear what other from NSW sites are doing …or
if I have it totally wrong and I can locate our quarterly BSI rate else
where or work it out differently. Adding our HH scores is the easy bit
..it the BSI i am not clear on so any thoughts on what you guys in NSW
are doing would be greatly appreciated
thanks
Lindy

Lindy Ryan

Clinical Nurse Consultant | Infection Control Services, Nepean Hospital.
Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District PO Box 63 Penrith NSW
2751Tel 02 4734 2228 | Fax 02 4734 2517 |
lindy.ryan@swahs.health.nsw.gov.au
http://www.health.nsw.gov.au

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