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Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control: Abstracts from the 2nd International Conference on Prevention and Infection Control (ICPIC 2013)

O026: Countrywide prevalence study of healthcare-associated infections in brazilian hospitals: preliminary results

Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control volume 2, Article number: O26 (2013) Cite this article

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Introduction

The knowledge of burden of Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) in hospitals is essential to drive governmental strategies for its prevention and control.

Objectives

To identify the prevalence of HAI in a representative sample of Brazilian hospitals.

Methods

A team of trained nurses carried out a hospital-wide HAI point prevalence survey in 2012. A sample of hospitals from five Brazilian regions was evaluated (n=91; total of 8,853 beds).

Results

The overall infection rate was 11.1%, varying from 2.5% (hospitals with <50 beds) to 18.3% (hospitals with > 200 beds). Reference hospitals showed 11.2% of overall infection rate. The most prevalent infections were pneumonia (3.6%), bloodstream infection (3.5%), surgical site infection (1.4%), urinary tract infection (1.1%) and skin infection (0.4%). Hospitals with >200 beds were likely to have higher HAI rates (RR=1.71; IC=1.398-2.10; P<0.001). The risk factors more frequently identified were: central venous catheter (17.8%), surgery (15.5%), urinary catheter (14.0%), and mechanical ventilators (8.1%). Etiologic agents were identified only in 9.1% (43/473) of infections. Gram-negative organisms were more frequent (56.0%), among them, Klebsiella spp (19.0%) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (16%) and were predominant. Among Gram-positives (35.0%), coagulase-negative Staphylococci were more prevalent (16%) than Staphylococcus aureus (9.0%) or Enteroccoccus spp (6%). Yeasts were identified in 9.0% of HAI.

Conclusion

These preliminary results emphasize both the relevance and the heterogeneity of HAI in Brazilian hospitals.

Disclosure of interest

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  1. Tropical Diseases, Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu - UNESP - Univ Estadual Paulista, Botucatu, Brazil
    • CMCB Fortaleza
  2. Public Health, Escola de Enfermagem - USP - Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
    • MC Padoveze
  3. Laboratório Especial de Microbiologia Clínca, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
    • C Kiffer
  4. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
    • AL Barth
  5. UFPA - Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil
    • ICRS Carneiro
  6. UFC - Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil
    • JLN Rodrigues
  7. UFPB - Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil
    • L Santos Filho
  8. IMIP - Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
    • MJG Mello
  9. FIOCRUZ - Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • MD Asensi
    •  & M Rocha
  10. Microbiology, UFU - Universidade Federal de Uberlandia, Uberlandia, Brazil
    • PP Gontijo Filho
  11. UFGO - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil
    • MS Pereira
  12. UFRGS - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
    • RS Kuchenbecker
  13. UNIFESP - Escola Paulista de Medicina, São Paulo, Brazil
    • ES Medeiros
    •  & ACC Pignatari
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Fortaleza, C., Padoveze, M., Kiffer, C. et al. O026: Countrywide prevalence study of healthcare-associated infections in brazilian hospitals: preliminary results. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control 2, O26 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1186/2047-2994-2-S1-O26

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Keywords

  • Infection Rate
  • Pseudomonas Aeruginosa
  • Surgical Site Infection
  • Central Venous Catheter
  • Bloodstream Infection

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