Hospital-Acquired Infections: Insights, Prevention, and Control Strategies
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Epidemiology & Public Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2025 | Viewed by 4
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Interests: emergency medicine; brain injury; cardiovascular medicine; cardiology; risk stratification; acute heart failure; chest pain; cardiac arrest; sepsis; epidemiology
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Dear Colleagues,
Elderly patients are at high risk for developing healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs), increasing from 7.4% in subjects under 65 years to 11.5% in patients over 85 years. Usually, HAIs are caused by bacterial, viral, or fungal pathogens, where the most common types include bloodstream infections, hospital‐acquired pneumonia, intestinal infections by Clostridium difficile, surgical site infections, and urinary tract infections associated with catheter use. HAIs represent one of the most frequent adverse events during healthcare delivery, resulting in prolonged hospital stays, long-term disability, resistance to antimicrobial resistance, or even increased unfavorable outcomes.
Extended emergency department (ED) stays with undiagnosed illnesses in an uncertain context of otherwise healthy and critically ill patients are likely to increase the risk of infections. Understanding the characteristics of patients who attend the ED and then develop HAIs during hospitalization is important.
The aim of this Special Issue is to address the characteristics of patients in the ED with particular reference to the diagnostic framework and management of cases that will develop an infection during hospitalization with particular reference to insight, control and prevention strategies.
Topics:
- Which feaures of patients in the emergency department predict hospital-acquired infections following hospital admission?
- Which ED patients are at particular risk for infection?
- How to protect yourself and what strategies to adopt to prevent infections in the ED?
- How to monitor at-risk cases?
Dr. Andrea Fabbri
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- healthcare-acquired infections
- bloodstream infections
- hospital‐acquired pneumonia
- intestinal infections
- clostridium difficile
- surgical site infections
- urinary tract infections
- emergency department
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