Your Involvement

We are asking hospitals that participate in NHSN to join our research study. This study will allow us to understand the serial impact of CMS payment policies on hospitals and patients, so that we can help future decision-making by policy makers.

This study will take 15-20 minutes of your time, and we will share our findings with you
on a regular basis.

The study involves sharing data that you already contribute to NHSN with our project's NHSN Group called PAICAP. We do not need any patient identifiers for this study. No new data collection is required. Your time commitment would be limited to 15-20 minutes in total to join the PAICAP NHSN group and to confirm the types of infection and denominator data you are willing share with us.

Facilities participating in the original project and members of the PAICAP NHSN User Group need only to review and confer rights to the new template when you next log in to NHSN to continue participation. Please email the project team if you have any questions and we will provide step-by-step instructions.

Throughout this multi-year project, we will provide all participants with annual updates of our findings, and in between as requested by our members.

We are committed to protecting confidentiality.

We are taking multiple steps to protect your data. Hospitals that join our group will NOT be able to see data from other hospitals in the PAICAP group. Your hospital data will only be visible to PAICAP NHSN User Group administrators. We will only present data in aggregate and your hospital will NOT be identified in any presentations or publications unless you ask us to specifically identify you. You will have the opportunity to give permission for your facility to be named in the acknowledgments for publications that included your data; we will contact facilities directly to request permission.

You will have the opportunity to choose which data you want to share with us, and we will not accept any patient identifiers. We will utilize the Group feature of NHSN for accessing only those data you choose to share with us in order to create a study database. Additionally, risks to confidentiality will be minimized by the use of password-protected computers and databases secured behind multiple firewalls. Databases will be accessible only to approved project staff and the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute Institutional Review Board. We are committed to protecting the confidentiality of hospitals participating in this study. Information which would permit identification of any hospital will not be disclosed or released to any outside entity without the prior consent of the institution, unless required by law.

• Name
• Hospital Name
  

  if you are affiliated with more than 1 hospital please submit the contact information for your main location

• Hospital Street Address
  Street Address
  Address Line 2
  City
  State / Province / Region
  Postal / Zip Code
  Afghanistan Albania Algeria Andorra Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Brunei Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Congo Costa Rica Côte d'Ivoire Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic East Timor Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Fiji Finland France Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Grenada Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati North Korea South Korea Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Micronesia Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nauru Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Romania Russia Rwanda Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Samoa San Marino Sao Tome and Principe Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia and Montenegro Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa Spain Sri Lanka Sudan Suriname Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Syria Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vatican City Venezuela Vietnam Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe Country
• Email
• Phone
• Preferred method of contact: Email Phone
• Is your hospital a NHSN facility? Yes No
• Are you: NHSN facility administrator NHSN user Neither
• If you are affiliated with more than 1 hospital, please list the additional hospitals and indicate if they are NHSN facilities:
• What is the best time of day to reach you? Select Morning Afternoon Evening
• How did you hear about us? Select A Colleague Search A Conference Other*
• *If other, please explain
• Comments/Questions

  Once you have expressed your interest, we will follow up with a few questions to determine your eligibility and provide you with:
  • Detailed instructions on how to join our NHSN Group
  • A list of the specific data elements we are collecting and how we will incorporate the data into our project

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