The CDC posts an annual report, National and State Healthcare-Associated Infections Progress Report, that describes the statistics of preventing HAIs for that year. In 2016, the …show more content…
They report findings from both acute care and long-term acute care hospitals. Their findings for acute care hospitals were that there had been a 50 percent decrease in central line-associated bloodstream infections between the years 2008 and 2014 (“Healthcare-associated Infections,” 2016). They also found that there was a decrease in surgical site infections, which the statistics were taken from 10 procedures that were analyzed throughout previous reports. The report states that there was a “13 percent decrease in hospital-onset methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteremia (bloodstream infections) between 2011 and 2014” (“Healthcare-associated Infections,” 2016). We can assume that these decreases are due to better anti-septic techniques, both by nurses and surgeons. Although there was a change in these statistics, there are instances where statistics remain the same. They observed no change