Fighting HAIs with facts

One way to combat hospital-acquired infections is to understand more about their root causes


One way to combat hospital-acquired infections is to understand more about their root causes, according to an article on the DNA India website.

Facts and figures about HAIs (in the USA) include:

• HAIs claim an average of 271 lives every day. HAIs kill more people in the United States than automobile accidents and breast cancer combined.

• The United States experiences about two million HAI cases per year  

• HAIs cost an average of $25,000 per patient. Consider there are approximately two million HAI cases per year, their total burden is in the neighborhood of $50 billion.

• The majority of HAIs are transmitted through contact with contaminated surfaces/equipment, or via airborne transmission 

• More than 70 per cent of the bacteria that cause HAIs are resistant to one or more of the front-line medications used to treat them

Read the article.

 

 



May 14, 2015


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