1. Manitoba Health, Seniors & Active Living Healthcare Associated Infection Surveillance

2. Background and Context
Document development
Background and Context

3. MHSAL HAI Reporting Data reported included: C. difficile infections
VRE new blood stream infections
MRSA and CPE data will be reported in three categories: cases of new colonizations (new cases of MRSA never been reported previously), cases of new infections (in new and known cases of MRSA) and simultaneous colonization and infections (new cases of MRSA never been reported previously).

4. Definitions
Manitoba Health Seniors and Active Living (MHSAL) Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI) Indicator Project Working Group (WG) has adopted the surveillance processes of CNISP. The following are the CNISP procedures/processes to be followed for:
MRSA case, colonization and infection attribution
CPE case, colonization and infection attribution
Attribute the colonization or infection

5. Steps
Days used to count for attribution start at Admission. Admission is the day the patient is moved to an inpatient unit or is in ER > 24 hours who then is later admitted to an inpatient unit (whichever comes first).
The case (whether confirmed new or a known case) is reviewed to determine if the case is an infection or a colonization using the appropriate infection definitions.

6. Steps continued
If the case does not meet the infection definition (by meeting all required criteria), then the case is classified as a colonization.
If the case is a colonization and the patient was not previously known to be positive, then attribution of the colonization is done using the published MHSAL definitions. This case would be counted as a new colonized case of MRSA/CPE in surveillance statistics.
If the case is a colonization and the patient is already known to be positive, then nothing further is done for the positive specimen for surveillance purposes. This case is not counted in the statistics.

7. Steps continued
If the case is a new infection, attribution occurs using a different method than colonization.
MRSA/CPE infection counts include all NEW infections in patients who were not known to be positive for MRSA/CPE as well as New infections in patients who were known to be positive for MRSA/CPE. This is how the CNISP benchmark is counted.
Attribution categories for the infections attribution are different from colonization MRSA/CPE attribution All of these cases would be counted as a new infection cases of MRSA/CPE in surveillance statistics.

8. Example #1
A patient stayed at hospital A as an inpatient in February In October 2018, they are cared for as a inpatient in hospital B. A positive MRSA admission swab was found. This patient had never tested positive for MRSA previously. This MRSA overall and MRSA colonization would be attributed to hospital A (using the MHSAL ARO definition attributions). The MRSA colonization numbers submitted to MHSAL would include this patient.

9. Example #2
A patient stayed in hospital A for 3 weeks in March In November 2018, they are admitted to hospital B and a wound tests positive on admission for MRSA. It is determined this MRSA result is an infection. The overall MRSA would be attributed to hospital A (using the MHSAL ARO definition attributions) but the infection would have an attribution to the community (using the infection attribution categories) if the patient was in their home (the community) in the past 5 days. The MRSA infection numbers submitted to MHSAL would not include this patient as the infection is attributed to the community and not to a healthcare facility in the region/PHSO.

10. Example #3
A Known MRSA patient is admitted to hospital A from a PCH with an MRSA positive blood stream infection. The overall MRSA attribution would not be done as their case of MRSA was previously counted in statistics (regional or facility specific) when they were first diagnosed. However, the infection would have an attribution to the PCH (using the infection attribution categories) if the patient was in the PCH in the last 7 days and they met the criteria outlined in the infection attribution categories. The MRSA infection numbers submitted to MHSAL would include this patient.

11. Example #4
A patient with no known MRSA history has a hip replaced in hospital A in January In February 2018, they are admitted to hospital B. They stay there for 1 week. In May they are admitted to hospital C and are there for 3 days before they are operated on and a specimen from within the joint capsule is found to be MRSA positive. The overall MRSA would be attributed to Unknown (multiple facility exposures), but the MRSA infection would be attributed back to the hospital where the original surgery took place (hospital A). The MRSA infection numbers submitted to MHSAL would include this patient.

12. Infection definitions
NHSN-CDC – no longer the Manitoba network IP&C definitions
Can be found here:
Within that document, there are infection definitions for many body systems plus links individual chapters for BSI, PNEU, UTI, VAE, & SSI which are more extensive.