{"id":"doi:10.2807/1560-7917.es.2018.23.46.1800516","kind":"article","title":"Prevalence of healthcare-associated infections, estimated incidence and composite antimicrobial resistance index in acute care hospitals and long-term care facilities: results from two European point prevalence surveys, 2016 to 2017","authors":["Suetens C","Latour K","Kärki T","Ricchizzi E","Kinross P","Moro ML","Jans B","Hopkins S","Hansen S","Lyytikäinen O","Reilly J","Deptula A","Zingg W","Plachouras D","Monnet DL"],"author_count":15,"year":2018,"published":"2018-11-01","venue":"Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin","cited_by":484,"doi":"10.2807/1560-7917.es.2018.23.46.1800516","arxiv_id":null,"nct_id":null,"source_url":"https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.es.2018.23.46.1800516","archive_url":"https://space-kitty.com/papers/doi:10.2807/1560-7917.es.2018.23.46.1800516","updated":null,"pmid":"30458912","pmcid":"PMC6247459","openalex_id":null,"pdf_url":"https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6247459/pdf","abstract":"Point prevalence surveys of healthcare-associated infections (HAI) and antimicrobial use in the European Union and European Economic Area (EU/EEA) from 2016 to 2017 included 310,755 patients from 1,209 acute care hospitals (ACH) in 28 countries and 117,138 residents from 2,221 long-term care facilities (LTCF) in 23 countries. After national validation, we estimated that 6.5% (cumulative 95% confidence interval (cCI): 5.4-7.8%) patients in ACH and 3.9% (95% cCI: 2.4-6.0%) residents in LTCF had at least one HAI (country-weighted prevalence). On any given day, 98,166 patients (95% cCI: 81,022-117,484) in ACH and 129,940 (95% cCI: 79,570-197,625) residents in LTCF had an HAI. HAI episodes per year were estimated at 8.9 million (95% cCI: 4.6-15.6 million), including 4.5 million (95% cCI: 2.6-7.6 million) in ACH and 4.4 million (95% cCI: 2.0-8.0 million) in LTCF; 3.8 million (95% cCI: 3.1-4.5 million) patients acquired an HAI each year in ACH. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to selected AMR markers was 31.6% in ACH and 28.0% in LTCF. Our study confirmed a high annual number of HAI in healthcare facilities in the EU/EEA and indicated that AMR in HAI in LTCF may have reached the same level as in ACH.","abstract_license":"CC-BY (article license as recorded by Europe PMC; abstract reproduced unmodified apart from markup removal)","license":"CC-BY","is_open_access":true,"retracted":false,"peer_reviewed":null,"categories":[],"details":null,"provenance":"europepmc","attribution":"Abstract of \"Prevalence of healthcare-associated infections, estimated incidence and composite antimicrobial resistance index in acute care hospitals and long-term care facilities: results from two European point prevalence surveys, 2016 to 2017\" by Suetens C, Latour K, Kärki T et al., https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.es.2018.23.46.1800516, used under its Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY); markup removed, otherwise unmodified.","topics":[{"slug":"infectious-disease-amr","name":"Infectious Disease, Vaccines & Antimicrobial Resistance","domain_slug":"medicine"}],"cited_in_dossiers":[]}