Sharp drop in patient safety seen amid pandemic: 3 findings

Becker's Healthcare February 14, 2022
Gabrielle Masson

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, metrics tracking healthcare-associated infections and other complications of care indicate significant deterioration of multiple patient safety measures, according to an analysis published Feb. 12 by The New England Journal of Medicine.

Below are three key findings:

1. Central-line associated bloodstream infections in U.S. hospitals increased 28 percent in the second quarter of 2020, compared to the second quarter of 2019, according to CDC data. In the five years preceding the pandemic, central-line associated bloodstream infections had decreased by 31 percent.

2. A study of 148 HCA Healthcare-affiliated hospitals through 2020 found central line-associated bloodstream infections, catheter-associated urinary...

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