About 6 percent of patients in Swiss hospitals contract an infection, according to a new survey. 108 acute hospitals took part in the national survey, representing 80 percent of all acute beds in Switzerland, as the Federal Office of Public Health (BAG) announced on Tuesday. 14,000 patients were studied.
The number of infections during a stay in a Swiss Hopital has remained constant in recent years. The latest figure corresponds to that of the last survey in 2017. Switzerland was among the hospital infections in the middle of Europe.
The result was “remarkable” because the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic with a heavy burden on hospitals, combined with a shortage of staff, could have led to more infections, the report said.
Common wound infections
The risk of infection was greatest in the intensive care unit. The most common were post-surgical wound infections (29 percent of all hospital infections), followed by urinary tract infections (16.3 percent), lower respiratory tract infections (15.8 percent), and bloodstream infections (8.9 percent).
Just like in 2017, about everyone received in 2022 Third Antibiotics for hospital patients. These were the most prescribed penicillins And cephalosporins.
perceived need for improvement
The study found that there is a need for improvement in the continuous training of staff, in the review of prevention processes in daily life and especially in the implementation of projects aimed at infection prevention. It states that there are no differences between the small, medium and large hospitals.
The regular surveys of the hospital infections and the use of antimicrobials are for monitoring and control hospital infections serve. For this, the data per department and department are one Hopital captured in one day. The research was carried out by a group of experts national Center for Infection Prevention (Swiss nose). (SDA)
Source:Blick
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