Hospital Differences In Adult Inpatient Stays With Healthcare-Associated Infections, 2019 & 2021

In October 2024, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality published a statistical brief that presents the rate of adult inpatient stays involving one or more of five Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs)—central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI), catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI), ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), non-ventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia (NVHAP), surgical site infections (SSI), and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections, and C. difficile infection—by select hospital characteristics. The Statistical Brief uses the 2019 and 2021 State Inpatient Databases from public non-Federal acute-care hospitals for 38 States with information on the diagnoses present . . .