Surveillance and Statistics

CHICA–Canada offers these links for additional resources for infection control professionals. Links presented here do not imply endorsement by CHICA–Canada.

Tools and websites to help you carry out surveillance and analyse the results.

• Case Definitions for Diseases under National Surveillance
• Centre for Healthcare Related Infection Surveillance and Prevention (CHRISP)
• Communicable Disease Surveillance Protocols from Ontario Hospital Association
• Epi Info (epidemiology shareware from the CDC)
• Eurosurveillance Weekly
• Hospitals in Europe Link for Infection Control through Surveillance (HELICS)
• National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System (NNIS)  – U.S. hospital surveillance system for reporting nosocomial infections. National infection rates are published here to use as benchmarks.
• VICNISS - Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System from Victoria, Australia has tailored the NNIS system to incorporate specific targeted modules into their hospital surveillance.
• Web Pages That Perform Statistical Calculations
  A wonderful resource for the mathematically challenged...!