摘要：The Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (ACHS) has recently published the Australian Councilon Healthcare Standards Clinical Indicator Users' Manual 2003, which includes the recently developedInfection Control Indicators. This article describes the indicator development process undertaken withthe Australian Infection Control Association (AICA) National Advisory Board.For over 10 years, the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards has developed speciality specificclinical indicators. The earliest set of Hospital Wide Medical Indicators, measured (among other areas)hospital acquired infections including wound infection and bacteraemia. As clinical practice changedover time, it had become obvious that the indicators were not meeting the needs of clinicians inproviding useful information for monitoring or improving infection rates.From inception, all ACHS indicators have been developed in collaboration with the appropriate medicalcollege, society or association. It was the ACHS and the Australian Infection Control Association thatdeveloped a specific set of Infection Control Indicators. Indicators need to be reflective of today'shealthcare environment, be easily collectable and assist in providing information that can flagpotential areas requiring improvement
