Infection Control - The Facts
A collaboration with student 18135927
Why infection control is important for patient safety
- Infections that spread within the health-care settings affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide
- The numbers of infections are being caused by microbes resistant to conventional treatments
- Health care-associated infections also increase the costs to patients and hospitals
- This trend has alarmed health-care providers, managers, institutions and governments to pay increased attention to preventing infections.
The Impact of Healthcare Associated Infections
- Increased morbidity can affect more than 30% of patients admitted to ICU in developed countries
- In acute care hospitals in Europe approx. 5 million HAIs are estimated to have occurred
- In England more than 100000 cases of HAI lead to over 5000 deaths directly attributed to infection each year