Key Objectives:
- Summarize formal and informal feedback received thus far on the toolkit
- Identify any gaps, challenges, or additional materials needed for implementation of the toolkit
- Share ideas for future iterations of the toolkit
Brief Summary:
A CSTE/CDC multidisciplinary workgroup developed a consensus of best practices in the reporting and communication of healthcare-associated infection (HAI) data analyses. The HAI DAPS toolkit provides recommendations for analytic methods and considerations for data display, with user-friendly materials and techniques to help engage a non-professional audience. The workgroup identified numerous domains of HAI data analysis and presentation that could potentially have been included in the DAPS toolkit. However, to ensure the toolkit could be created in a reasonable timeframe with the resources that were available to the workgroup, the scope of the toolkit was defined to include only the HAIs and facility types currently included in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Reporting programs, with a focus on analysis and presentation of hospital data. After two years of development, the HAI DAPS toolkit was released in November 2015 and can be found on CSTE’s Infectious Disease website (http://cste.site-ym.com/?HAIToolkit). The toolkit was disseminated directly to state health departments and key stakeholder organizations including Consumers Union, the National Public Health Information Coalition, ASTHO, NACCHO, APIC, and SHEA. Since that time, CSTE has received informal feedback from several state health department stakeholders about additional topics and appendices that could be added to a future iteration of the DAPS toolkit, including expanding the scope to include additional HAIs. In addition, the toolkit contains a standardized evaluation tool for users to comment on the components of the toolkit that are useful and those that have opportunities for improvement. The purpose of this roundtable is to summarize the formal and informal feedback on the DAPS toolkit that has been received during the first six months of its release, and to solicit any additional feedback or challenges that state HAI programs have encountered while using this toolkit. Furthermore, discussion around enhancements, additional needs, and future versions of the DAPS toolkit will be encouraged.