jueves, 3 de noviembre de 2011

CDC - Healthcare Provider Basics - Dialysis Safety

This week, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)  [Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services] strengthened incentives for dialysis facilities to ensure they are preventing infections and delivering quality care to end-stage renal disease patients.

Part of a broader rule [The Office of the Federal Register (OFR)], CMS now requires dialysis facilities to submit three months of 2012 infection and antibiotic use data to CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network [CDC - NHSN] in order to receive full Medicare payment. This is the first CMS/CDC data collaboration related to dialysis settings, however, the two agencies have been aligning patient safety efforts on hospital quality measures including CLABSI (CDC - Healthcare-associated infections - HAI), SSI, and CAUTI.
CDC is providing several new resources to dialysis facilities and patients to ensure smooth NHSN enrollment and improved quality care. These include a new dialysis safety web site (CDC - Dialysis Safety in Healthcare Settings) including infection prevention recommendations, as well as step-by-step NHSN enrollment and training materials

To read the CMS rule, visit http://www.ofr.gov/OFRUpload/OFRData/2011-28606_PI.pdf
To enroll a dialysis facility in NHSN, visit http://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/dialysis/cms-dialysis-enroll-steps.html
To view new CDC dialysis safety website, visit: http://www.cdc.gov/dialysis/


CDC - Healthcare Provider Basics - Dialysis Safety


Healthcare Providers

Overview

Reducing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) is a national priority. Healthcare providers (HCPs) have made incredible efforts to prevent these infections in intensive care units and other inpatient settings. That same commitment to prevention must be applied in outpatient settings such as dialysis clinics.
In 2008, hemodialysis patients experienced approximately 37,000 central-line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs). Within the past 10 years, there have been more than 30 outbreaks of hepatitis B and hepatitis C in non-hospital healthcare settings such as outpatient clinics, dialysis centers, and long-term care facilities. The reduction and ultimate elimination of HAIs in dialysis settings (CLABSIs) requires a partnership between many stakeholders; however, clinicians are ultimately responsible for ensuring every patient receives safe care.
CDC provides a recommended set of interventions to prevent bloodstream infections (BSI) in hemodialysis patients Adobe PDF file [PDF - 529KB]. These recommendations are already being implemented by a group of dialysis providers in collaboration with CDC. This partnership, known as CDC’s Dialysis BSI Prevention Collaborative, was established to allow facilities to share best- and evidence-based practices to prevent BSIs.  Results are measured using CDC’s HAI surveillance system, the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN). The Collaboration includes freestanding and hospital-based facilities. Please contact cdcinfo@cdc.gov  for more information.
Basic steps clinicians can take to prevent infections in hemodialysis patients include:
  • Promote fistula use
  • Get catheters out
  • Improve catheter care
  • Clean hands before and after every patient contact
  • Talk to patients about good vascular access care

Guidelines and Recommendations

Clinical Practice Consensus Guidelines

Immunizations

  • CDC. Guidelines for Vaccinating Kidney Dialysis Patients and Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease.   Adobe PDF file [PDF - 298 KB] ACIP 2006.
  • STIC: The Safe and Timely Immunization Coalition
    This national coalition consisting of healthcare professionals and patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD) was formed in 2005 to increase the rate of hepatitis B, influenza, and pneumococcal immunizations in patients and staff in dialysis settings.
    • ESRD Network 6.External Web Site Icon Safe and Timely Immunization Coalition (STIC): A Comprehensive Resource Guide of Educational Materials on Hepatitis B, Influenza, and Pneumococcal Immunizations.
    • ESRD Network 11.External Web Site Icon Safe and Timely Immunization Coalition (STIC). Resource Guide & Guidelines for Vaccinating Kidney Dialysis Patients and Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease.
    • ESRD Network 15.External Web Site Icon Safe and Timely Immunization Coalition (STIC): Sample QI Project: Improving Immunization Rates.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Conditions and Interpretive Guidance

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. ESRD Program Interpretive Guidance Version 1.1 and Measures Assessment Tool. Adobe PDF file [PDF - 1.53 MB]External Web Site Icon

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