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The intensive care unit (ICU) caters to patients with severe illnesses or injuries who require constant medical attention. These patients are susceptible to infections due to their weak immune systems and prolonged hospital stays. This makes the ICU the specialty with the highest hospital-acquired infection (HAI) cases. The core dimension of infection prevention and control for ICUs is infection surveillance, which analyses the risk factors of HAI and implements comprehensive interventions for HAI prevention and control. Hence, this study aimed to investigate the potential risk factors for developing HAI in the ICU using real-time automatic nosocomial infection surveillance systems (RT-NISS) to surveil, and analyze the effectiveness of RT-NISS coupled with comprehensive interventions on HAI prevention and control in the ICU.
Li et al. (Fri,) studied this question.