Medscape September 2, 2021
Several healthcare-associated infections in US hospitals spiked in 2020 compared to the previous year, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) analysis published September 2 in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. Soaring hospitalization rates, sicker patients who required more frequent and intense care, and staffing and supply shortages caused by the COVID-19 pandemic are thought to have contributed to this increase.
This is the first increase in healthcare-associated infections since 2015.
These findings “are a reflection of the enormous stress that COVID has placed on our healthcare system,” Arjun Srinivasan, MD (Capt, USPHS), the associate director of the CDC’s Healthcare-Associated Infection Prevention Programs, in Atlanta, Georgia, told Medscape Medical News. He was not an author of the...
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