作者
Yiying Cai, Indumathi Venkatachalam, Nancy W Tee, Thean Yen Tan, Asok Kurup, Sin Yew Wong, Chian Yong Low, Yang Wang, Winnie Lee, Yi Xin Liew, Brenda Ang, David C Lye, Angela Chow, Moi Lin Ling, Helen M Oh, Cassandra A Cuvin, Say Tat Ooi, Surinder K Pada, Chong Hee Lim, Jack Wei Chieh Tan, Kean Lee Chew, Van Hai Nguyen, Dale A Fisher, Herman Goossens, Andrea L Kwa, Paul A Tambyah, Li Yang Hsu, Kalisvar Marimuthu
发表日期
2017/5/15
期刊
Clinical Infectious Diseases
卷号
64
期号
suppl_2
页码范围
S61-S67
出版商
Oxford University Press
简介
Background
We conducted a national point prevalence survey (PPS) to determine the prevalence of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and antimicrobial use (AMU) in Singapore acute-care hospitals.
Methods
Trained personnel collected HAI, AMU, and baseline hospital- and patient-level data of adult inpatients from 13 private and public acute-care hospitals between July 2015 and February 2016, using the PPS methodology developed by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Factors independently associated with HAIs were determined using multivariable regression.
Results
Of the 5415 patients surveyed, there were 646 patients (11.9%; 95% confidence interval [CI], 11.1%–12.8%) with 727 distinct HAIs, of which 331 (45.5%) were culture positive. The most common HAIs were unspecified clinical sepsis (25.5%) and pneumonia …
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