More patients get infections when health care facilities do not work together

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.)
• Description:
  Infographic associated with August 2015 Vital signs: Making health care safer : stop spread of antibiotic resistance.
  
  Graphic titled "More patients get infections when health care facilities do not work together."
  
  A bar graph depicts the following example. Five years after CRE enters 10 health care facilities in an area sharing patients:
  
  ◦ With the Common Approach (status quo), CRE will impact 12% of patients. 2,000 patients will get CRE.
  
  ◦ With Independent Efforts, CRE will impact 8% of patients. 1,500 patients will get CRE.
  
  ◦ With Coordinated Approach, CRE will impact 2% of patients. 400 patients will get CRE.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Anti-Bacterial Agents Anti-Infective Agents Drug Resistance, Bacterial Drug Resistance, Microbial Enterobacteriaceae Infections Health Facilities
• Document Type:
  Poster
• Genre:
  Infographic
• Pages in Document:
  1 infographic
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:2aaf082f17ea565cb8a092c2d31732e181deca6a48ca95953c47d3ff53edf53c
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/32569/cdc_32569_DS1.jpeg
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