Mapping the landscape of healthcare-associated infections in China, 2015-2019: a nation-wide observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), complicated by antimicrobial resistance continue to affect all countries with unprecedented threat, especially for developing countries. Our objective was to explore the epidemiological features, spatiotemporal heterogeneity and associated factors of HAIs and HAI related multi-drug resistant organisms (MDROs) in China.

Methods

We used national surveillance data that were collected from 6867 sampled hospitals during 2015-2019 to determine the annual incidence of HAIs, key HAI-related quality indicators and associated factors.

Findings

During 2015-2019, total of 4,959,230 HAIs were reported in sampled hospitals in China, with the overall incidence and prevalence estimated as 1.1 and 2.3 per 100 inpatients, which showed

SUBMITTER: Yao HW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12768928 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature