International Journal of Infectious Diseases (Oct 2014)

Hospital-acquired infection rate in a tertiary care teaching hospital in China: a cross-sectional survey involving 2434 inpatients

  • Xiu-Bin Tao,
  • Li-Hua Qian,
  • Yan Li,
  • Qun Wu,
  • Jing-Jing Ruan,
  • Dong-Zhen Cai,
  • Hui Peng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2014.05.011
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 27, no. C
pp. 7 – 9

Abstract

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A single-day hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) point prevalence study was conducted in a tertiary care hospital in China. The overall prevalence rate of HAIs was 3.53% (95% confidence interval 2.80–4.26%) among 2434 inpatients surveyed. Respiratory system infection was the most common type of HAI (49.43%), followed by surgical site infection (22.99%). The pathogen detection results for 50 patients showed Pseudomonas aeruginosa to account for 24.00% of isolates, followed by Klebsiella pneumoniae (14.00%) and Escherichia coli (14.00%).

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