A Detailed Report on Factors Contributing to Healthcare Infections

This report delves into the critical issue of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), exploring three key contributing factors. The report begins by defining HAIs as infections acquired during medical treatment, highlighting their prevalence and impact on patient recovery. It identifies invasive medical procedures, antibiotic use, and organizational factors as the primary drivers of HAIs. The report references studies and observations, emphasizing the role of invasive devices and procedures, the misuse of antibiotics, and the influence of hospital organizational practices. The report also mentions the role of Ambulance Employees Australia Victoria regarding medically supervised injecting centers. Overall, the report provides a detailed analysis of the factors contributing to HAIs, offering insights into their causes and potential mitigation strategies.

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Factors contributing to healthcare associated infections
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Health care infections are infections that the patient might get while receiving treatment in the
hospital particularly receiving treatment for surgical or medical conditions. One of the
contributing factors that act as hindrance to full recovery of the patient
Septimus and Schweizer (2016) note that modern health care involves various devices and
procedures that are invasive in the treatment and recovery of the patients. Septimus and
Schweizer (2016) observes that there are four most common types of heath care infections that
are related to invasive devices. And these diseases include catheter-associated urinary tract
infection, surgical site infection and ventilator-associated events. These are some of the
infections that are neglected and hardly thought to have emanated from the hospital set up. It is
usually difficult for some people to believe that transmission can occur in a hospital setting.
According to Khan, Baig & Mehboob (2017), 1 out of the 25 individuals were hospitalized and
at least one individuals from the twenty-five people who are hospitalized, one of them would
contract the disease or an infection. HAIs occurs in a variety of contexts including outpatient
care, long term care facilities, dialysis facilities, ambulatory surgical centers and finally acute
care facilities.
Lastly, it is important to note that health care associated infections are important. They are easily
used to lead to researches to determine the adequate required information. the risk factors for the
infections which can be grouped into 3 general strategies. Procedures in medicine, antibiotic use
and finally organizational factors.

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References
Khan, H. A., Baig, F. K., & Mehboob, R. (2017). Nosocomial infections: Epidemiology,
prevention, control and surveillance. Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine, 7(5), 478-
482.
Septimus, E. J., & Schweizer, M. L. (2016). Decolonization in prevention of health care-
associated infections. Clinical microbiology reviews, 29(2), 201-222.