Healthcare Innovation September 2, 2021
A major new research report has documented a significant increase in infections among hospitalized patients, including infections associated with patients being on central line and urinary tract catheters and on ventilators
A new research report is shedding light on a troubling problem emerging in hospitals, as the COVID-19 pandemic re-surges. As the text of a press release published on September 2 to the website of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology in America (SHEA) began, “After years of steady reductions in healthcare-associated infections, significantly higher rates of four out of six routinely tracked infections were observed in U.S. hospitals, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analysis of data from the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) published today in...