Brief Report: Quarterly National HAI Incidence in 2022

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.). Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion ; National Healthcare Safety Network
• Description:
  During the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) team at CDC monitored national standardized infection ratios (SIRs) on a quarterly schedule to assess the impact of the pandemic on the incidence of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). These analyses demonstrated large increases in the incidence of most HAIs reported to NHSN during 2020 and 2021.
  
  The 2022 National and State HAI Progress Report (referred to as HAI Progress Report) was published in December 2023 and provided a summarized picture of HAI incidence for the 2022 calendar year. In this report, the CDC NHSN team noted that the incidence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteremia laboratory-identified (LabID) events (MRSA bacteremia) in acute care hospitals (ACH) measured annually did not reflect the dramatic and abrupt shift in incidence that occurred throughout the year. A quarterly assessment of SIRs for MRSA bacteremia provides greater understanding and context for the annual, summarized incidence and allows for a more accurate comparison of the incidence of MRSA bacteremia in 2022 and the pre-pandemic period. This brief report describes the results of the quarterly assessment.
  
  Quarterly assessments of HAI incidence in 2022 were also performed for other HAIs, and these results are included in the Appendix of this report. However, for all infection types except MRSA bacteremia, the conclusions made from the 2022 annual SIRs published in the HAI Progress Report regarding whether national incidence had returned to pre-pandemic levels are consistent with the conclusions made from the quarterly analysis. Thus, the primary purpose of this paper is to supplement the MRSA bacteremia data presented in the 2022 HAI Progress Report by providing quarterly results and additional explanation around the national incidence of MRSA bacteremia.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Catheterization, Peripheral Clostridioides Difficile Clostridium Infections Colorectal Surgery Cross Infection Disease Transmission, Infectious Health Care Facilities Hospitals Hospitals, Rehabilitation Hysterectomy Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Sepsis Surgical Wound Infection Ventilators, Mechanical

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• Keywords:
  Abdominal Hysterectomy Acute Care Hospitals C. Difficile Infection (CDI) Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI) Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI) Colon Surgery Healthcare-Associated Infections Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities (IRFs) Long-Term Acute Care Hospitals (LTACHs) MRSA Standardized Infection Ratios (SIRs) Standardized Utilization Ratios (SURs) Surgical Site Infections (SSIs) Ventilator-Associated Events (VAE)

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• Series:
  Healthcare-Associated Infections Progress: Reports
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.15620/258540
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (U.S.)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Name as Subject:
  National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN)
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/public-domain/
• Rights:
  Public Domain
• CIO:
  National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID)
• Division:
  DHQP - Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion
• Topic:
  Diseases & Conditions
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  7 pdf pages
• Citation:
  Brief report: Quarterly national HAI incidence in 2022. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. https://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/pdfs/datastat/Quarterly-SIRs-Brief-Report.pdf. Published September 2024.
• Collection(s):
  Infectious Diseases
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