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hospital-acquired infection

vr.tr.hospital-acquired-infection · XCT.QLT

Let an agent explain hospital-acquired infections and their main types, relay causes, prevention and surveillance from infection control and public health sources, describe patient rights and reporting, and distinguish hospital-acquired infections from community-acquired infections and from other adverse events.

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Research draft, second pass

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Purpose and description

Let an agent explain hospital-acquired infections and their main types, relay causes, prevention and surveillance from infection control and public health sources, describe patient rights and reporting, and distinguish hospital-acquired infections from community-acquired infections and from other adverse events.

An infection acquired by a patient during care in a hospital or other healthcare facility that was not present or incubating at admission, including surgical site infections, catheter-associated urinary and bloodstream infections, ventilator-associated pneumonia and infections such as Clostridioides difficile and MRSA, sometimes transmitted from healthcare workers to patients or caused by procedures as iatrogenic infections, and presenting as hospital-acquired fever; such infections affect millions of patients yearly and are reduced by hand hygiene, sterilisation, surveillance and antimicrobial stewardship.

What it is for: Not applicable; a category of infections.

It can be explain types and causes; relay prevention and surveillance; describe rights and reporting; distinguish from community infections.

Distinguishing features

Healthcare setting

Not present at admission

Device and procedure related

Preventable in large part

What it looks like

Not a visible object; infections arising during care.

Physical character

patients affected in high-income countries: about 7 percent - WHO estimates

patients affected in low- and middle-income countries: about 15 percent - WHO estimates

onset threshold: about 48 hours after admission - common definition

How it is recognised

Infection acquired during healthcare

Surgical site, catheter, ventilator and bloodstream infections; iatrogenic infections; professional-to-patient transmission; hospital-acquired fever

Community-acquired infections start outside care; other adverse events are not infections

Related models

is a kind of - in registry terms

healthcare-associated infection

is a kind of - in registry terms

adverse effect

is prevented by - and infection control

hand hygiene

is worsened by - in many pathogens

antimicrobial resistance

In practice

Families and kinds

surgical site infections

catheter-associated urinary tract infections

central line-associated bloodstream infections

ventilator-associated pneumonia

Clostridioides difficile and multidrug-resistant organism infections

iatrogenic infections from procedures and professional-to-patient transmission

hospital-acquired fever of infectious origin

Identifiers

MeSH D003428 cross infection

Standards and regulation

WHO infection prevention and control guidelines

National surveillance systems such as NHSN

Mandatory reporting and public disclosure rules in some countries

Accreditation standards for hospitals

Failure modes and hazards

Underreporting

Antimicrobial resistance

Agents giving personal medical or legal advice

Also called

Iatrogenic infectioninfectious disease transmission, professional-to-patienthospital-acquired fever

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Help Patients first.

Safety.

Symptoms

Symptoms after care.

Symptoms

Symptoms.

  1. Why do fever, wound redness, pain or discharge after a hospital stay or procedure need prompt contact with the care team? action
  2. Is the user describing their own symptoms, which needs a clinician now? boundary

Rights

Rights and complaints.

Rights

Rights.

  1. What rights do patients have to information, and how are concerns reported? provenance
  2. Is the user asking about a legal claim, which needs a lawyer? boundary
Understand The infections.

Clinical.

Definition

Definition and types.

Definition

Definition.

  1. What is a hospital-acquired infection, and what are the main types by site and device? definition
  2. Is the question about hospital-acquired, community-acquired or another adverse event? boundary

Causes

Causes and pathogens.

Causes

Causes.

  1. How do devices, procedures, hands and the environment transmit infections, and which pathogens dominate? definition
  2. Which entry fits the specific pathogen? action
Prevent Prevention and surveillance.

Public health.

Prevention

Prevention.

Prevention

Prevention.

  1. How do hand hygiene, bundles, sterilisation and stewardship reduce infections, with evidence attributed? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance

Surveillance

Surveillance.

Surveillance

Surveillance.

  1. How are infections monitored and reported, and what do rates show? provenance
  2. Which sources are cited? provenance
Context Costs and history.

Context.

Costs

Impact.

Costs

Costs.

  1. What are the human and economic costs of hospital-acquired infections, as studies estimate? provenance
  2. Which entry fits patient safety? action

History

History.

History

History.

  1. How did Semmelweis, Lister and later infection control transform hospital infection? provenance
  2. Which entry fits the history of infection control? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should surgical site infection and central line infection be separate primary entries?
  • How should infection control sources be linked?
  • The registry entry has merged aliases naming transmission routes and a symptom; should they be split off?