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Kemptville District Hospital

2675 Concession Road, Kemptville, ON K0G 1J0
Tel:   (613) 258-6133    Fax:   (613) 258-7853

Public Reporting of Patient Safety Indicators

Infection control rates may vary from month to month. The smaller the facility, the greater the rates will vary. This is because a change in even one case in a small facility will cause the rate to go up and down considerably.

Clostridium Difficile Reporting (C-Diff): The C. Diff Infection rate is calculated as a rate per 1,000 patient days. The "total patient days" represents the sum of the number of days during which services were provided to all inpatients during the given time period.

Method of Calculation: The rate is calculated as follows:

Number of new hospital acquired cases of C. Diff in our facility x 1000
Total number of patient days (for one month)

Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA): A case is a patient identified with a laboratory confirmed bloodstream infection with methicillin resistant staphyloccus aureus (MRSA). A blood stream infection is a single positive blood culture for MRSA.

Hospital Acquired MRSA: The infection is not present on admission (ie: onset of symptoms<72 hours after admission) or the infection was present at the time of admission but was related to a previous admission to the same facility within the last 72 hours.

Method of Calculation: The rate is calculated as a rate per 1000 patient days.

The calculation of the MRSA bacteremia infection rate for the reporting period (on a quarterly basis) is:

Number of new hospital acquired cases of MRSA in our facility x 1000
Total number of patient days

Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus (VRE): A case is a patient identified with laboratoy confirmed bloodstream infection with vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE bacteremia). A blood stream infection is a single positive blood culture for VRE.

Hospital acquired VRE: The infection was present on admission (ie onset of symptoms <72 hours after admission) or the infection was present at the time of admission but was related to a previous admission to the same facility in the last 72 hours.

Method of Calculation: The rate is calculated as a rate per 1000 patient days.
The calculation of the VRE bacteremia infection rate for the reporting period ( on a quarterly basis) is:

Number of new hospital acquired cases of VRE in our facility x 1000
Total number of patient days

C.Difficile (C.Diff) Public Reporting:
	Jan 2011	Feb 2011	March 2011	April 2011	May 2011	June 2011	July 2011
Number of new cases of C-Diff	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Clostridium Difficile Rate	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Aug 2011	Sep 2011	Oct 2011	Nov 2011	Dec 2011	Jan 2012	Feb 2012
Number of new cases of C-Diff	0	0	0	0	0	0
Clostridium Difficile Rate	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Mar 2012	Apr 2012	Jun 2012	Jul 2012	Aug 2012	Sep 2012	Oct 2012
Number of new cases of C-Diff
Clostridium Difficile Rate

MRSA Public Reporting:
	Jan-Mar 2011	April-June 2011	July-Sept 2011	Oct-Dec 2011
Number of new cases of MRSA	0	0	0	0
MRSA Rate	0	0	0	0
	Jan-Mar 2012	April-June 2012	July-Sept 2012	Oct-Dec 2012
Number of new cases of MRSA
MRSA Rate

Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus (VRE) public reporting:
	Jan-Mar 2011	April-June 2011	July-Sept 2011	Oct-Dec 2011
Number of new cases of VRE	0	0	0	0
VRE Rate	0	0	0	0
	Jan-Mar 2012	April-June 2012	July-Sept 2012	Oct-Dec 2012
Number of new cases of VRE
VRE Rate

Hand Hygiene Compliance Rate

Hand hygiene is known to significantly reduce the spread of infections in hospitals. Effective hand hygiene practices by health care practitioners improves patient and worker safety and helps prevent the spread of hospital-acquired infections. Our health care workers do practice effective hand hygiene; the provincial audit ensures that they are washing their hands at the right time and in the right fashion.

	2009-2010	2010-2011	2011-2012
Hand Hygiene Before Initial Patient/Patient Environment Contact	78.92%	77%
Hand Hygiene After Initial Patient/Patient Environment Contact	84.18%	84%

For more information on Public Reporting of Patient Safety Indicators, please go to OHA (Ontario Hospital's Association) website: http://www.oha.com/