Hospital Differences in Adult Inpatient Stays with Healthcare-Associated Infections
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are infections that develop while a patient is receiving healthcare for another condition. HAIs are a significant cause of harm and mortality in the United States in hospitals.
Hospital Differences in Adult Inpatient Stays with Healthcare-Associated Infections (PDF, 350 KB), a statistical brief from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, presents the rate of adult inpatient stays involving one or more of five HAIs—central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI), catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI), ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), non-ventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia (NVHAP), surgical site infections (SSI), and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections and Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile)
Highlights:
- Large, public non-Federal, teaching, and metropolitan hospitals consistently had higher rates of healthcare-associated infections compared with their counterparts in 2019 and 2021.
- From 2019 to 2021, rates of all examined healthcare-associated infections combined, central line-associated bloodstream infections, ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection increased among most hospital types. Rates of VAP increased the most, by over 100 percent.
- From 2019 to 2021, rates of C. difficile infection decreased among all hospital types.
- From 2019 to 2021, central line-associated bloodstream infections increased in some hospital types and ventilator-associated pneumonia rates increased in all hospital types among stays not involving COVID-19. However, these increases were smaller than those seen when COVID-19 stays were included.
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