Hospitals must work together to prevent superbug spread, CDC says

The CDC’S new analysis, a mathematical simulation, was released Tuesday as a CDC Vital Signs report and in the agency’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Researchers looked at four types of healthcare-associated infections: CRE, multidrug-resistantPsuedomonas aeruginosa, invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and C. difficile.

In 2011, they wrote, there were an estimated 310,000 infections caused by these bugs. Without increased interventions, cases would be expected to climb 10% over five years to around 340,000 per year. But with immediate implementation of nationwide interventions, medical facilities could prevent 619,000 infections over the five-year period, the team calculated, and might save more than 37,000 lives (as well as an estimated $7.7 billion in direct medical costs.)

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HOSPITALS MUST WORK TOGETHER TO PREVENT SUPERBUG SPREAD, CDC SAYS

But a new analysis from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests that coordinated efforts to combat antibiotic-resistant infections could reduce the number of infections in healthcare facilities by more than half a million over the course of five years.

“If you’re a hospital doing a great job but the hospital down the street isn’t, your patients are at risk,” said CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden, during a phone call with reporters Tuesday afternoon. “Facilities that go it alone can’t protect their own patients.”

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