Ontario is now reporting three more patient safety indicators as part of a comprehensive plan for unprecedented transparency in the province’s hospitals.

By visiting an istcl built and hosted web site (http://www.health.gov.on.ca/patient_safety), Ontarians now have access to bacteraemia infection rates for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) by hospital site. Both MRSA and VRE are hospital-associated infections that are resistant to certain antibiotics.

Public reporting will enable hospitals to monitor MRSA and VRE bacteraemia infection rates in their facilities so that the most appropriate infection control measures and highest standards of practice can be put in place. It will also be used to analyze any province-wide trends.

The full text of the Governments Announcement is located at http://www.health.gov.on.ca

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