CDC survey shows decline in health care-associated infections

There was a sizable reduction in health care-associated infections over a recent 8-year span among hospitalized patients in the United States, according to data from a CDC survey published in The New England Journal of Medicine.The survey showed that hospitalized patients were 27% less likely to contract a health care-associated infection (HAI) in 2023 than in 2015. On any given day about 1 in 38