Mar 2023 | Stawicki, Stanislaw P.; Urrutia, Alicia Raquel; Kimble, Charles N.; Worrilow, Kathryn Colonna
Journal of Global Infectious Diseases
Abstract
Annually, approximately one out of every 20 inpatients or an estimated 1.7 million individuals experience a hospital-acquired infection (HAI) in the US. In practice, this means that 5%–10% of admitted patients will develop an HAI and approximately 100,000 of these patients will die. The estimated incidence of HAIs exceeds that of many other reportable diseases in the US, and the number of HAI-related deaths is greater than many of the leading causes of mortality.