Table 1.
Characteristics of the selected wards.
| Analysed Parameters | Internal Medicine Ward | Intensive Care Unit |
Cardiology Ward | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 2020 | 2019 | 2020 | 2019 | 2020 | |
| The number of patients registered as infected with HAI, infection outside of the hospital and colonisation (related to the infection in general) | 1560 | 1087 | 326 | 380 | 115 | 90 |
| The number of nosocomial infections (in general—alarm factors 1 and non-alarm factors) | 151 | 136 | 107 | 126 | 39 | 24 |
| Number of nosocomial infections with C. difficile | 42 | 45 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 |
| Dominating factor of nosocomial infections in a given ward | C. difficile | C. difficile | Acinetobacter baumanii (n = 25) | Acinetobacter baumanii (n = 25) and Klebsiella pneumoniae (n = 20) | Staphylococcus aureus (n = 6) | C. difficile and Escherichia coli (n = 5) |
| Number of deaths of patients infected with C. difficile | 5 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Number of deaths of infected patients (in general) | 33 | 30 | 27 | 33 | 8 | 1 |
| Number of women of infected with C. difficile | 26 | 18 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Number of men infected with C. difficile | 16 | 27 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| Number of doctors | 62 | 73 | 20 | 27 | 20 | 24 |
1 alarming agents—biological pathogen of particular virulence or resistance, life-threatening [20].