Table 2.
Number and prevalence of different types of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), overall and according to ward specialties, Slovenian national healthcare-associated infections prevalence survey, 2017.
| Intensive care | General medicine | Surgery | Gynaecology, obstetrics & neonatology | Paediatrics | Other | All | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Number | Number | Number | ||||
| (prevalence) | (prevalence) | (prevalence) | (prevalence) | Number | Number | Number | |
| (prevalence) | (prevalence) | (prevalence) | |||||
| Pneumoniae | 35 (17.9%) | 38 (1.7%) | 19 (1.0%) | 1 (0.2%) | |||
| Surgical site infections | 5 ( 2.6%) | 4 (0.2%) | 65 (3.3%) | 3 (0.6%) | 3 (1.1%) | 11 (2.1%) | 107 (1.9%) |
| Urinary tract infections | 6 ( 3.1%) | 41 (1.9%) | 15 (0.8%) | 1 (0.2%) | 0 (0.0%) | 7 (1.3%) | 84 (1.5%) |
| Systemic infections | 3 ( 1.5%) | 22 (1.0%) | 13 (0.7%) | 0 (0.0%) | 1 (0.4%) | 5 (0.9%) | 69 (1.2%) |
| Gastro-intestinal system infections | 2 ( 1.0%) | 13 (0.6%) | 4 (0.2%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 2 (0.4%) | 40 (0.7%) |
| Bloodstream infections with CRI3 | 6 ( 3.1%) | 10 (0.5%) | 3 (0.2%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 5 (0.9%) | 24 (0.4%) |
| Skin and soft tissue infections | 0 ( 0.0%) | 4 (0.2%) | 4 (0.2%) | 0 (0.0%) | 1 (0.4%) | 0 (0.0%) | 20 (0.3%) |
| Central nervous system infections | 1 ( 0.5%) | 3 (0.1%) | 3 (0.2%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 2 (0.4%) | 10 (0.2%) |
| Eye, Ear, Nose or Mouth infection | 0 ( 0.0%) | 5 (0.2%) | 1 (0.1%) | 1 (0.2%) | 1 (0.4%) | 0 (0.0%) | 8 (0.1%) |
| Other lower respiratory tract infections | 4 ( 2.0%) | 3 (0.1%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 1 (0.2%) | 8 (0.1%) |
| Bone and joint infections | 0 ( 0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 5 (0.3%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 7 (0.1%) |
| Cardiovascular system infections | 0 ( 0.0%) | 1 (0.0%) | 4 (0.2%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 1 (0.2%) | 6 (0.1%) |
| Catheter-related infections w/o BSIs | 0 ( 0.0%) | 2 (0.1%) | 1 (0.1%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 5 (0.1%) |
| Reproductive tract infections | 0 ( 0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 2 (0.4%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 3 (0.1%) |
| Specific neonatal infections | 4 ( 2.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 8 (1.5%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 2 (0.0%) |
| Patients with at least one HAIa | 60 (30.6%) | 127 (5.8%) | 134 (6.7%) | 16 (2.9%) | 4 (1.4%) | 0 (0.0%) | 16 (0.3%) |
| 9 (3.2%) | 31 (5.8%) | 377 (6.6%) | |||||
CRI3: catheter-related bloodstream infection with microbiological documentation of the relationship between the vascular catheter and the bloodstream infection.
w/o BSIs: without bloodstream infections.
a
Patients can have several HAIs, thus the numbers in columns do not necessarily add up to the number of patients with at least one HAI.