FW: USA – Saving Lives and Saving Money: Hospital Acquired Conditions Update – Interim Data from National Efforts To make Care Safer, 2010-2014

[Glenys Harrington]

Dear All,

Wouldn’t it be great if we had national surveillance and were able to
generate reports like the following – follow the links:

USA – Saving Lives and Saving Money: Hospital Acquired Conditions Update –
Interim Data From National Efforts To make Care Safer, 2010-2014

Estimated 17 percent reduction in HACs from 2010 to 2014.

. A cumulative total of 2.1 million fewer HACs were experienced by
hospitalised patients in 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 relative to the number
of HACs that would have occurred if rates had remained steady at 2010 level.

. Approximately 87,000 fewer patient died in the hospital as a
result of the reduction in HACs, and approximately $US19.8 billion in health
care costs were saved from 2010 to 2014.

. Catheter -associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) accounted
for 16% of the total reductions in HACs.

. Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) in 2010
was 0.55 per 1,000 hospitalizations. In 2014 CLABSIs had reduced to 0.15 per
1,000 hospitalizations.

http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/quality-patient-safety/pfp/interimhacrate2
014.html#Summary

. “These results represent real people who did not die or suffer
infections or harm in the hospital,” said Patrick Conway, chief medical
officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), in a
conference call with reporters.

http://www.medpagetoday.com/HospitalBasedMedicine/GeneralHospitalPractice/54
954

Regards

Glenys

Glenys Harrington

Consultant

Infection Control Consultancy (ICC)

PO Box 5202

Middle Park

Victoria, 3206

Australia

M: +61 404 816 434

infexion@ozemail.com.au

ABN 47533508426

MESSAGES POSTED TO THIS LIST ARE SOLELY THE OPINION OF THE AUTHOR, AND DO NOT REPRESENT THE OPINION OF ACIPC.

The use of trade/product/commercial brand names through the list is discouraged by ACIPC. If you wish to discuss specific reference to products or services by brand or commercial names, please do this outside the list.

Archive of all messages are available at http://aicalist.org.au/archives – registration and login required.

Replies to this message will be directed back to the list. To create a new message send an email to aicalist@aicalist.org.au

To send a message to the list administrator send an email to aicalist-request@aicalist.org.au.

You can unsubscribe from this list be sending ‘signoff aicalist’ (without the quotes) to listserv@aicalist.org.au

[Author]

Posts