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Measures for Exposure Burden, Healthcare Acquisition, and Infection Burden in Surveillance Metrics of Multidrug-resistant Organisms in Healthcare Facilities

Ichiro KAWAMURA
Department of Infectious Diseases, Osaka International Cancer Institute

In healthcare settings, surveillance is a critically important component of any multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO) control program. Multiple MDRO surveillance strategies, including measures for exposure burden, healthcare acquisition, and infection burden, have been employed. No consensus for MDRO surveillance metrics has been achieved in Japan; as a result, data collection and definitions for calculating those metrics vary widely between healthcare facilities. This document describes useful and practical surveillance metrics and issues to consider when using those metrics in practice for infection prevention and control in healthcare settings.

Key words：multidrug-resistant organism, surveillance, exposure burden, healthcare acquisition, infection burden

e-mail: i.kawamura＠mc.pref.osaka.jp

Received: April 26, 2018
Accepted: June 20, 2018

33 (5)：183─192,2018