Estimating the Proportion of Healthcare-Associated Infections That Are Reasonably Preventable and the Related Mortality and Costs

By C. Umscheid, Matthew D. Mitchell, J. Doshi, Rajender Agarwal, K. Williams, P. Brennan. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 2011

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Subfields: Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Emergency Medical Services, Epidemiology

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• Burden of Six Healthcare-Associated Infections on European Population Health: Estimating Incidence-Based Disability-Adjusted Life Years through a Population Prevalence-Based Modelling Study (2016, background): “Introduction Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are associated with increasedmorbidity and mortality and excess costs, and because a significant proportion of them are preventable, they are considered to be a marker of quality of patient care [1].”
• Strategies to Prevent Surgical Site Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2014 Update (2014, background): “Up to 60% of SSIs have been estimated to be preventable by using evidence-based guidelines.(10,11) B.”