The Ministry of Health released a new set of patient safety indicators today, measuring hospital performance in eight areas: clostridium difficile associated disease, Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), vancomycin-resistant enterococcis (VRE), hospital-standardized mortality ratio (HSMR), central-line primary bloodstream infection (CLI), ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), surgical site infection prevention and 'hand hygiene compliance,' which refers to consistent hand washing by health care workers.
This last has been given a new urgency by the spread of a new strain of swine flu or, as the World Health Organization now calls it, 'influenza A (H1N1)'.
Megan Ogilvie's story is here.
Today, we map two of these indicators: hand washing and C. difficile. As always, click on an icon or zoom on for information:
Hand hygiene compliance: Apr 01, 2008 - Mar 31, 2009
Clostridium Difficile Associated Disease (CDAD) Mar 01 - Mar 31, 2009
Here is the complete data for all GTA hospitals:
Ajax And Pickering Hospital Site - ROUGE VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM
Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care
Centenary Hospital Site - ROUGE VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM
Etobicoke General Hospital Site
Georgetown Hospital Site - HALTON HEALTHCARE SERVICES
Hillcrest Hospital - TORONTO REHAB INST
Humber Memorial Hospital Site (Church Site)
Lakeridge Health - Bowmanville Site
Lakeridge Health - Oshawa Site
Lakeridge Health - Port Perry Site
Lyndhurst Hospital Site - TORONTO REHAB INST
Markham Stouffville Hospital - Cottage Hospital Site
Milton District Hospital Site - HALTON HEALTHCARE SERVICES
Northwestern General Hospital Site (Psychiatric Unit Only)
Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Site - HALTON HEALTHCARE SERVICES
Princess Margaret Hospital Site
Scarborough Salvation Army Grace Hospital
Southlake Regional Health Centre
St John's Rehabilitation Hospital
St Joseph's Health Centre - Toronto
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre - Orthopaedic And Arthritic Hospital Site
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre - Women's College Hospital Site
Toronto East General Hospital (The)
Trillium Health Centre - Mississauga
Trillium Health Centre - West Toronto
This week, we continue our disease series by mapping the GTA's three most common food-borne diseases:



Our series on communicable disease begins this week with five sexually transmitted diseases.



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