CDC Press Release: Despite Progress, Ongoing Efforts Needed to Combat Infections Impacting Hospital Patients
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sent this bulletin at 03/26/2014 12:24 PM EDTPress Release
Despite Progress, Ongoing Efforts Needed to Combat Infections Impacting Hospital Patients
National and state data detail threat of healthcare-associated infections and opportunities for further improvements
On any given day, approximately one in 25 U.S. patients has at least one infection contracted during the course of their hospital care, adding up to about 722,000 infections in 2011, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This information is an update to previous CDC estimates of healthcare-associated infections.
The agency released two reports today – one, a New England Journal of Medicinearticle detailing 2011 national healthcare-associated infection estimates from asurvey of hospitals in ten states, and the other a 2012 annual report on national and state-specific progress toward U.S. Health and Human Services HAI prevention goals. Together, the reports show that progress has been made in the effort to eliminate infections that commonly threaten hospital patients, but more work is needed to improve patient safety.
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