Healthcare-associated infections in long-term care facilities: a systematic review and meta-analysis of point prevalence studies.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Residents of long-term care facilities (LTCFs) are especially vulnerable to acquiring healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). Our systematic review and meta-analysis estimated the burden of HAIs, identified the most frequent HAIs and explored the impact of facility-level and surveillance methodological differences on HAI burden in LTCFs, as determined by point prevalence studies (PPS).

Design

Systematic review and meta-analysis.

Data sources

Bibliographic databases MEDLINE (Ovid), Embase (Ovid) and CINAHL (EBSCOhost) were searched for potentially eligible English-language original research publications. References of short-listed full-text publications, the European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention website and an unpublished 2016-2022 Australian A

SUBMITTER: Bennett N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11816188 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature