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Global report on Infection Prevention and Control
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- The new report of WHO shows that where good hand hygiene and other cost-effective practices are followed, 70% of those infections can be prevented.
- Healthcare-associated infections (HAI) are among the most frequent adverse events occurring during health service delivery
- On an average 7% of patients in high-income countries and 15 % in low- and middle-income countries, will acquire a HAI during their time in hospital.
- Approximately one in four hospital-treated sepsis cases and almost half of all cases of sepsis with organ dysfunction treated in adult intensive-care units are health care-associated.
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