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A hospital-acquired infection, also known as a nosocomial infection (from the Greek nosokomeion, meaning "hospital"), is an infection that is acquired in a hospital or other healthcare facility. [1] To emphasize both hospital and nonhospital settings, it is sometimes instead called a healthcare-associated infection . [ 2 ]
[22] [23] Up to 1200 more patients died between 2005 and 2008 than would be expected for the type and size of hospital [24] [25] based on figures from a mortality model, but the final Healthcare Commission report concluded it would be misleading to link the inadequate care to a specific number or range of numbers of deaths. [26]
Hospital acquired pneumonia is the second most common nosocomial infection (after urinary tract infections) and accounts for 15–20% of the total. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is the most common cause of death among nosocomial infections and is the primary cause of death in intensive care units .
Prevalence of the virus is continuing to increase among the over-70s, however.
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), often contracted in a hospital are infections that patients acquire during the course of receiving healthcare treatment for other conditions. The most dangerous show antibiotic resistance. See Diseases and Organisms in Healthcare Settings at the Centers for Disease Control website for a list.
The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) is a private nonprofit professional organization based in Arlington, VA for healthcare practitioners dedicated to the principles of infection control. APIC has more than 15,000 members. APIC concentrates its efforts in the hospital, nursing home and home health settings.
Infection prevention and control is the discipline concerned with preventing healthcare-associated infections; a practical rather than academic sub-discipline of epidemiology. In Northern Europe , infection prevention and control is expanded from healthcare into a component in public health , known as "infection protection" ( smittevern ...
From 29 April 2020, the official figures include all coronavirus-positive deaths in the UK, wherever they happened. [2] Before then, the official daily toll included only hospital deaths in England, but included all coronavirus-positive deaths in the rest of the UK wherever they happened, if known to public health agencies.