AJMC September 3, 2021
New CDC data show an increase in some health care–associated infections during COVID-19.
Throughout the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, US hospitals experienced an increase in health care–associated infections (HAIs), reversing encouraging trends seen in recent years, new CDC data show. Findings were published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
To expand upon early data reported in the first months of the pandemic, researchers at the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHNS) calculated national and state standardized infection ratios (SIRs) for each quarter (Q) of 2020 and compared findings with those recorded in 2019.
“Nationally, from 2015 to 2019, there have been consistent, significant reductions in the SIRs for central-line–associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs), catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs), and C...
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