Hospitals in Pennsylvania are required to report data on healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). The report cited below draws on the experience of nearly 2 million inpatients in 2009. Slightly over 1 percent of these inpatients contracted one or more HAIs. The most frequent type of HAI was found to be surgical site infections, representing about a quarter of all HAIs. Here is the rest of the breakdown (I rounded the numbers):
Healthcare Acquired Infections: By Type (for hospital inpatients)
- 25% surgical site
- 22% urinary tract
- 18% gastrointestinal
- 10% bloodstream
- 10% pneumonia
- 8% multiple
- 8% other
This report also examines what happened to inpatients with HAIs. About 9 percent of them died, compared to about 2 percent of inpatients with no HAI. Nearly 30 percent of inpatients with HAIs were readmitted within 30 days, compared to about 6 percent readmissions among inpatients with no HAIs. The average length of stay for inpatients with HAIs was roughly 3 weeks, compared to 5 days for those with no HAIs.
The report notes the commendable improvement shown by Pennsylvania hospitals between 2008 and 2009 in decreasing the incidence of healthcare acquired infections.
Source: The Impact of Healthcare-Associated Infections in Pennsylvania 2009. Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council, Feb. 2011. Full text can be found by clicking here: http://www.phc4.org/reports/hai/09/docs/hai2009report.pdf Posted by AHA Resource Center, (312) 422-2050, rc@aha.org
Filed under: Benchmarking, Patient safety, Posted by Kim Garber | Tagged: HAI statistics, Healthcare acquired infections statistics, Hospital acquired infections statistics |
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