Table 2. United States national action plan for the prevention of health care–associated infections with targets up to the year 2020.

	Health care–associated infection/measure	Target reduction	Year
1	Central venous catheter–related bloodstream infection	50%	2015
2	Catheter-related urinary tract infection	25%	2007/2008
3	Invasive MRSA infection	75%	2015
4	Health care–associated MRSA infection	50%	2015
5	Health care–associated Clostridium difficile diarrhea	30%	2015
6	Clostridium difficile–related hospital admissions	30%	2015
7	Postoperative wound infection	30%	2015
8	Pre- or perioperative measures (e.g., timing of antibiotic prophylaxis, shaving)	To be implemented by 2020

MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus