Hospital Infections Are Being Mapped, but It Can Be Easy to Misunderstand the Data
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How does the availability of hospital infection data affect our everyday lives? Tamás Ferenci and Zsuzsanna Wirth have probably done the most in the public sphere to help us learn more about infections, we spoke to them.
Institutional data on hospital infections are becoming public, but experts say the numbers should not be used to create hospital rankings.
Institutional data on hospital infections and epidemics will become publicly available on the website of the National Center for Public Health and Pharmacy from Thursday night. National Chief Medical Officer Beatrix Oroszi emphasized that the purpose of the data release is not to rank institutions, but to increase patient safety and encourage necessary developments.
The page providing institutional data on hospital infections and epidemics will become public on Thursday night, and will be accessible from the website of the National Center for Public Health and Pharmacy (NNGYK).
"The first reaction was that their jaws dropped, they didn't expect this," Oroszi said of the hospital directors' reaction.
It was introduced to the profession on Tuesday, and on Thursday the new system containing data on hospital infections on the public interface of the NNGYK will be launched in full swing.
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