What US hospitals are doing to prevent common device-associated infections during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic: Results from a national survey in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The ways that device-associated infection prevention practices changed during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic remain unknown. We collected data mid-pandemic to assess the use of several infection prevention practices and for comparison with historical data.

Design

Repeated cross-sectional survey.

Setting

US acute-care hospitals.

Participants

Infection preventionists.

Methods

We surveyed infection preventionists from a national random sample of 881 US acute-care hospitals in 2021 to estimate the current use of practices to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI), central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI), and ventilator-associated events (VAE). We compared the 2021 results with those from surveys

SUBMITTER: Saint S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10755151 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature