MonthlyPlanSet-upGuidance

Monthly Plan Set-Up Guidance

By default, the monthly plans are blank and require hospitals to designate what areas of surveillance are being followed. Areas of surveillance that a hospital does not identify in any given month’s plan are considered “out-of-plan.”

Hospital data for any surveillance module are only "in-plan" when:

CDI

Under the Multi-Drug Resistant Organism Module; Specific Organism Type is set to ‘CDIF – C. difficile’, Locations is set to ‘FACWIDEIN – FacWideIN’, Process and Outcome Measures is set to ‘Lab ID Event All Specimens’.

CLABSI

Under the Device-Associated Module, each individual location under surveillance is specified and the CLABSI checkbox is checked.

CLIP

Under the Device-Associated Module, each individual location under surveillance is specified and the CLIP checkbox is checked.

INFLUENZA

Under the Healthcare Personnel Vaccination Module, the Influenza Vaccination Summary’ checkbox is checked.

MRSA

Under the Multi-Drug Resistant Organism Module; Specific Organism Type is set to ‘MRSA – MRSA’, Locations is set to ‘FACWIDEIN – FacWideIN’, Process and Outcome Measures is set to ‘Lab ID Event Blood Specimens Only’.

SSI

Under the Procedure-Associated Module; each individual procedure category under surveillance is specified and ‘IN – Inpatient’ is selected.

VRE

Under the Multi-Drug Resistant Organism Module; Specific Organism Type is set to ‘VRE – VRE’, Locations is set to ‘FACWIDEIN – FacWideIN’, Process and Outcome Measures is set to ‘Lab ID Event Blood Specimens Only’.