Point-prevalence of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use in a tertiary hospital in Shanghai, China: 2012-2023.

Antimicrob Resist Infect Control · 2026 · PMC12896229 · PMID 41547842

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Trends of HAIs From 2012 to 2023, the overall hospital-wide prevalence of HAIs showed no significant trend, but differences were notable: surgical wards had a significant upward trend from 3.97% (95% CI 2.65–5.68%) in 2012 to 4.82% (95% CI 3.48–6.49%) in 2023 ( β = 0.135, P = 0.003), while ICUs and non-surgical wards showed marginally significant downward trends ( β = − 2.360, P = 0.098; β = − 0.128, P = 0.071) (Fig. 1 A).

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There was an increasing trend in the proportion of patients receiving single-agent antimicrobial use for prophylactic and therapeutic purposes.

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