The new report of WHO shows that where good hand hygiene and other cost-effective practices are followed, 70% of those infections can be prevented.
Healthcare-associated infections (HAI) are among the most frequent adverse events occurring during health service delivery
On an average 7% of patients in high-income countries and 15 % in low- and middle-income countries, will acquire a HAI during their time in hospital.
Approximately one in four hospital-treated sepsis cases and almost half of all cases of sepsis with organ dysfunction treated in adult intensive-care units are health care-associated.