💡 Researchers explored the current evidence from point prevalence surveys (PPS) on Hospital-associated infections (HARIs) per year between 2010 and 2020 and estimated an annual incidence of 136 million HARIs per year, further analyzing the resistance situation within high-risk, healthcare-associated settings.
📌 HAIs are a common cause of morbidity and mortality. Low- and middle-income settings (LMICs) that have poor antimicrobial stewardship and limited microbiology diagnostic capacities are grossly affected by hospital-associated drug-resistant infections.
📌 The global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in 2019, reported an estimate of 4.95 million deaths associated with bacterial AMR and 1.27 million deaths attributable to bacterial AMR. This however does not distinguish between hospital and community-associated settings and uses an intractable approach that introduces some difficulty in the verification of the burden estimated.
📌 In the absence of robust national surveillance networks in LMICs to appropriately identify the threat of HARIs, there is a critical need to quantify the burden of HARIs in low-, middle-, and high-income countries, specifically those caused by common pathogens including 𝘌. 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘪, 𝘒𝘭𝘦𝘣𝘴𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴 (𝘴𝘱𝘱.), 𝘈𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘱𝘱., 𝘗𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘥𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘱𝘱., 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘺𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘰𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘴 𝘴𝘱𝘱, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘱𝘱.
🔴 Researchers in this study extracted data from PPS, conducted over 10 years across 195 countries, coupled with country-level estimates of hospitalization rates and durations, and analyzed the data to illustrate global trends in HARIs based on country, income group, and pathogen that could help to focus public health intervention.
With this they estimated the global number of HARIs per year to be 136 million, with the highest burden in China, Pakistan, and India, emphasizing the need for ongoing surveillance. Compared to other income groups, middle-income groups demonstrate the highest burden of HARIs per year.
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Published On: /06/2023
