Healthcare-associated infections are widely considered one of the most common unfavorable outcomes of healthcare delivery. Ventilator-associated pneumonia, central line-associated bloodstream infections, and catheter-associated urinary tract infectio...
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are still a global public health concern, associated with high mortality and increased by the phenomenon of antimicrobial resistance. Causative agents of HAIs are commonly found in the hospital environment and...
22 October 2025
Background: Healthcare-associated infections represent a significant public health problem, with a major impact on patient safety and quality of care. Nursing students play a central role in implementing infection prevention and control measures, yet...
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) result in significant patient morbidity and can prolong the duration of the hospital stay, causing high supplementary costs in addition to those already sustained due to the patient’s underlying disease....
17 May 2021
Demographic studies show that life expectancy is increasing in developed countries; increased longevity has also increased the share of the older population with often concomitant chronic conditions. An ageing population and increased comorbidities l...
Background: Evidence on HAIs in Africa is fairly common. Objectives: The main objective was to identify the surveillance tools used for healthcare–associated infections (HAIs) in countries in the WHO African Region. Secondary objectives focused...
Infections contracted during healthcare delivery in a hospital or ambulatory setting are collectively referred to as healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). Healthcare workers and patients alike are vulnerable to serious problems as a result of the...
Background: Healthcare-associated infections are infections that patients acquire during hospitalization or while receiving healthcare in other facilities. They represent the most frequent negative outcome in healthcare, can be entirely prevented, an...
Background and Objectives: Changes in the incidence of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and during periods with fewer or more COVID-19 cases have been inconclusively studied. Compared wit...
This study investigated how the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected the rate of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). PubMed, Scopus and Google Scholar were searched to identify potentially eligible studies published from Dec...
Healthcare-associated infections are serious public health problem. Besides antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral therapies, one potential strategy for breaking the chain of infection transmission is via the installation of antibacterial surfaces....
19 December 2022
The infection control team (ICT) ensures the implementation of infection control guidelines in healthcare facilities. This systematic review aims to evaluate the effectiveness of ICT, with or without an infection control link nurse (ICLN) system, in...
Healthcare-associated infections can occur in different care units and can affect both patients and healthcare professionals. Bacteria represent the most common cause of nosocomial infections and, due to the excessive and irrational use of antibiotic...
Healthcare-associated infections (HAI) are a huge public health concern, particularly when the etiological agents are multidrug resistant. The ability of bacteria to develop biofilm is a helpful skill, both to persist within hospital units and to inc...
Background and Objectives: Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa represent a challenge for healthcare systems worldwide, with significant incidence, high mortality, and increasing antibiotic resistance. This paper a...
Background: Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) cause increases in length of stay, mortality, and healthcare costs. A previous study conducted in Taiwan obtained similar results to those reported in Korea and Japan in 2015. Changes in microorgani...
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the main public health global burdens of the 21st century, responsible for over a million deaths every year. Hospital programs aimed at improving antibiotic use, referred to as antimicrobial stewardship progra...
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the increased vulnerability of hospitalized patients to healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), which significantly impact patient safety and clinical outcomes. This narrative review summarizes the main opportun...
22 February 2022
Background: Neonatal infections represent one of the six main types of healthcare-associated infections and have resulted in increasing mortality rates in recent years due to preterm births or problems arising from childbirth. Although advances in ob...
12 November 2021
(1) Background: Firefighters spend about 64% of their time responding to medical emergencies and providing medical care without a patient history, which can render them vulnerable to healthcare-associated infections (HAI). Infection prevention, contr...
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) significantly increase morbidity, mortality, length of hospital stays, and costs, particularly among ICU patients. Despite standard interventions, catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) and centra...
Background: Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and antimicrobial resistance are major burdens in tertiary care hospitals. Repeated point prevalence surveys (PPSs) offer a pragmatic approach to monitor temporal changes and guide infection prevent...
Background: Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and antimicrobial resistance are major global public health challenges, influenced by patient clinical complexity and prescribing practices. Methods: Three-point prevalence surveys (PPSs) were condu...
Background: Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a significant public health problem, having a decisive impact on the prognosis of patients hospitalized with COVID-19. In Romania, the absence of a uniform reporting system and the lack of epide...
28 February 2023
Healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs) are a significant concern for both healthcare professionals and patients. With recent advances in imaging modalities, there is an increase in patients visiting the radiology department for diagnosis and therap...
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are clinically relevant complications in critically ill stroke patients, particularly in neurological intensive care settings, where severe neurological injury, dysphagia, immobilization, invasive device exposu...
Background and objective: Statistics on healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) in Russia is scarce and has been considered to suffer from underreporting. We assessed the prevalence and changes in the prevalence of HAIs over 5 years and identified fa...
Early detection of patients vulnerable to infections acquired in the hospital environment is a challenge in current health systems given the impact that such infections have on patient mortality and healthcare costs. This work is focused on both the...
Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs) are among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in critically ill patients admitted to intensive care units. The growing spread of multidrug-resistant (MDR), extensively drug-resistant (XDR), and totall...
Healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs) represent a major cause of morbidity and mortality in gynecologic cancer patients, requiring personalized cures. A retrospective study on gynecologic patients with HCAIs, managed through an antimicrobial stewa...
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) represent one of the most persistent challenges in modern healthcare delivery, affecting millions of patients worldwide and imposing substantial clinical and economic burdens on healthcare systems. The emergenc...
Millions of patients acquire healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) every year, putting them at risk for serious complications and prolonged hospitalization. Point prevalence surveys (PPS), guided by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Co...
In the quest to curtail the spread of healthcare-associated infections, this work showcases the fabrication of a cutting-edge antibacterial textile coating armoured with aggregation-induced emission photosensitisers (AIE PS) to prevent bacterial colo...
11 January 2018
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) occurring in patients treated in an intensive care unit (ICU) are serious complications in the treatment process. Aetiological factors of these infections can have an impact on treatment effects, treatment dura...
24 February 2021
Introduction. Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a serious problem of modern medicine. Patients hospitalized in intensive care units (ICUs) develop HAI significantly more often than patients in other hospital units. Materials and Methods. An...
Background and Objectives: Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) remain a major cause of morbidity and mortality among hospitalized patients. During the COVID-19 pandemic, SARS-CoV-2 infection emerged as a major contributor to HAIs, alongside Clost...
Background and Objectives: Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are on the rise worldwide because the range of etiologic agents involved is very diverse and their antimicrobial resistance poses a threat to population health in the third millennium...
Healthcare-associated infections are an emerging cause of morbidity and mortality in COVID-19 intensive care units (ICUs) worldwide, especially those caused by multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogens. The objectives of this study were to assess the incid...
Healthcare-associated infections represent a global public health challenge, primarily driven by biofilm-forming multidrug-resistant pathogens on medical device surfaces, leading to high morbidity, mortality, and healthcare costs. As antibiotic strat...
Background and Objectives: Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) remain a relevant complication in coronary care units (CCUs), particularly among patients with cardiac dysfunction requiring invasive monitoring and prolonged hospitalization. In this...
Hospital infection prevention is critical to patient safety, yet data on the prevalence and contributing factors of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) in Aljouf, Saudi Arabia, are scarce. This retrospective cross-sectional study aimed to investi...
(1) Background: Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) after head and neck free-flap reconstruction are a common postoperative complication. Risk factors for HAIs in this context and their consequences have not been adequately described. (2) Methods...
Background/Objectives: Romania reports among the highest rates of carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative bacteria in the European Union, but patient-level data on healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are scarce. We characterised carbapenem resistance,...
Background/Objectives: Healthcare-associated infections involving surgical sites, skin trauma, and devices penetrating the skin are a frequent source of increased expense, hospitalization periods, and adverse outcomes. Medical adhesives are often emp...
Background/Objectives: Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) remain a major source of morbidity, mortality, and healthcare burden, and were profoundly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic through changes in case mix, care organization, and antimicrobi...
Background: Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), antimicrobial resistance (AMR), and antibiotic use (AU) remain critical challenges in intensive care units (ICUs). Reliable long-term surveillance is essential to inform stewardship programs and in...
Background/Objectives: Few studies have examined the prevalence of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and antimicrobial use (AMU) in acute care hospitals in Kazakhstan. This study aimed to address this gap by conducting a point-prevalence survey...
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) are a public health problem worldwide. The aim of this narrative review is to summarize and to provide a comprehensive overview of the current surveillance methods used in L...
22 July 2018
Adequate infection control plays a key role in preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). This study aimed to explore staff perceptions of hospital infection control in a rural and an urban hospital in Vietnam. Individual interviews were con...
22 July 2023
Healthcare-associated infections (HAI) refer to infections that patients may acquire from healthcare facilities through nursing activities. Nursing students involved in patient care are regularly exposed to an array of pathogens and clinical practicu...
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