National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Report, data summary for 2006 through 2007, issued November 2008.

This report is a summary of device-associated and procedure-associated module data collected and reported by hospitals participating in the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) from January 2006 through December 2007 as reported to the NHSN by March 24, 2008. This report updates previously published device-associated module data from NHSN and surgical site infection (SSI) rate data from the National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) system. The NHSN was established in 2005 to integrate and supersede 3 legacy surveillance systems at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): the NNIS system, the Dialysis Surveillance Network (DSN), and the National Surveillance System for Healthcare Workers (NaSH). Similar to the NNIS system, NHSN facilities voluntarily report their health care-associated infection (HAI) surveillance data for aggregation into a single national database for the following purposes: