Acute care hospitals reduced Clostridium difficile infections by 12%, between 2017 and 2018, according to the 2018 National and State Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) Progress Report issued by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The “report demonstrates notable progress, yet the threat is still real,” CDC Director Robert Redfield, MD, said at a press briefing.
The reduction of C. Diff. was seen as “significant,”= with 3,669 hospitals reporting 69,648C. difficile infections in 2018, representing a 29% decrease from 2015, according to an article on the Infection Control Today website.
Threats considered urgent are Candida auris, drug-resistant gonorrhea and carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae.
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