Epidemiological characteristics of healthcare-associated infections in the Irkutsk region

Abstract

Healthcare-associated infections (HAI) incidence is one of the most pressing issues in modern healthcare due to their high abundance as well as social and economic loss they cause. Hospitalacquired diseases afflict up to 8% of treated patients, prolong duration of hospital stay, lower treatment efficiency and quality of life, and negatively affect rehabilitation time. The current research presents a retrospective epidemiological analysis of the hospital-acquired diseases incidence in the medical-prophylactic organizations of the Irkutsk region during a 12-year period of time starting from year 2006. It was shown that HAI long-term annual average in the region was equal 41.94±2,04⁰ /₀₀₀₀₀ with a tendency to stabilization during the last years. Just as in the Russian Federation, in general, surgical medical-prophylactic organizations carry highest epidemiological significance. During the studied period of time percent of postoperative complications has declined by 1.5 times. However, an accession rate in levels of hospital-acquired pneumonia was registered. Should be noted that hospital-acquired pneumonia was one of the most prevalent diseases during the last two years in the structure of HAI.