Up To 70% of HAI's Can Be Prevented

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03/01/2011 - By Infection Control Today Contributor
(Excerpt from article)
"Up to 70 percent of certain cases of healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs) may be preventable.....AIs are infections that occur during a hospitalization and that are not present prior to hospital admission.

Using estimates from national reports and published studies related to HAIs, the study suggests that if best practices in infection prevention and control were applied at all U.S. hospitals, reducing the number of cases of catheter-associated bloodstream infections could save as many as 5,520-20,239 lives annually; for ventilator-associated pneumonia, 13,667 to 19,782 lives annually; for catheter-associated urinary tract infections, 2,225 to 9,031 lives annually; and for surgical site infections, 2,133 to 4,431 lives annually."


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