A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is a reminder of how far we’ve come — and how far we still must go — to keep patients safe from infections.
The CDC reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that patients were 16 percent less likely to have a health care-associated infection (HAI) in 2015 than they were in 2011. On any given day, however, about one in 31 hospital patients has at least one HAI, the CDC reports.
