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Assess the national burden of healthcare-associated infections, including Clostridium difficile, and evaluate the prevalence of six high-priority antibiotic-resistant bacteria across diverse hospital settings.

March 10, 2016MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly ReportOpen Access

Vital Signs: Preventing Antibiotic-Resistant Infections in Hospitals — United States, 2014

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LWLindsey M. WeinerManhattan Institute for Policy Research SFScott K. FridkinEmory University ZAZuleika Aponte‐TorresNational Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases

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National surveillance report reveals variable declines in healthcare-associated infections across United States facilities, highlighting substantial remaining antibiotic resistance threats.

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Assess the national burden of healthcare-associated infections, including Clostridium difficile, and evaluate the prevalence of six high-priority antibiotic-resistant bacteria across diverse hospital settings.
Analyzed 2014 infection surveillance data from approximately 4,000 short-term acute care hospitals, 501 long-term acute care hospitals, and 1,135 inpatient rehabilitation facilities reported to the National Healthcare Safety Network across all 50 states.
Calculated standardized infection ratios, percentage reductions from baseline years, and the proportion of infections attributable to six urgent or serious antibiotic-resistant bacterial threats.
Infections dropped by 50% in short-term and 9% in long-term acute care hospitals for central line-associated bloodstream infections; catheter-associated urinary tract infections decreased by 0%, 11%, and 14% in short-term, long-term, and rehabilitation facilities, respectively.
Surgical site infections and Clostridium difficile infections declined by 17% and 8%, respectively, in short-term acute care hospitals.
Among non-CDI isolates, resistance was observed in 47.9% of Staphylococcus aureus, 29.5% of enterococci, 17.8% of ESBL Enterobacteriaceae, 3.6% of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, 15.9% of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and 52.6% of Acinetobacter species.

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Weiner et al. (2016) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a872844ddd5671cb07cd076 https://doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6509e1

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National surveillance report reveals variable declines in healthcare-associated infections across United States facilities, highlighting substantial remaining antibiotic resistance threats.

Vital Signs: Preventing Antibiotic-Resistant Infections in Hospitals — United States, 2014

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