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System Performance

Hospital patient safety


These indicators provide data on hand washing among hospital care providers, completion of a surgical safety checklist by surgical teams, C. difficile infections among hospital patients, and antibiotic-resistant bloodstream infections among hospital patients.


Provincial ×

hand washing by hospital care providers
Before patient contact

of opportunities where providers
could and did wash their hands
After patient contact

of opportunities where providers
could and did wash their hands
Surgical Safety Checklist Completion
 

of surgeries with completed safety checklists
C.Difficile infections in hospital patients
Rate of

Per 1,000 patient days

 

Antibiotic-resistant bloodstream infections in hospital patients
Rate of

Per 1,000 patient days


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