Abstract
Purpose of reviewHealthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a leading cause of preventable harm in US hospitals. Hospitals are required to conduct surveillance and report selected HAIs, including central line-associated bloodstream infections, catheter-associated urinary tract infections, colon and abdominal hysterectomy surgical-site infections, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia, and Clostridioides difficile infections, to the CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network.Recent findingsUp until the COVID-19 pandemic, there was significant progress in reducing HAIs. However, the pandemic resulted in extraordinary challenges for infection prevention in hospitals. Increases in HAIs were observed throughout 2020 and 2021. The Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals has recently been updated and provides common sense evidenced-based strategies to reduce HAIs.SummaryThe purpose of this review is to highlight important changes since the 2014 Compendium.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 263-269 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Current opinion in infectious diseases |
Volume | 36 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 1 2023 |
Keywords
- central line-associated bloodstream infections
- Clostridioides difficile infections
- healthcare-associated infections
- methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia
- surgical-site infections
- Humans
- Catheter-Related Infections/epidemiology
- Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
- Pandemics/prevention & control
- COVID-19/epidemiology
- Urinary Tract Infections/epidemiology
- Female
- Cross Infection/epidemiology
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Microbiology (medical)
- Infectious Diseases