Observational studyDeutsches Arzteblatt international2024
Healthcare-Associated Infections and the Use of Antibiotics in German Hospitals—Results of the Point Prevalence Survey of 2022 and Comparison With Earlier Findings.
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- [Perioperative and peri-interventional antibiotic prophylaxis: general and urology-specific recommendations from the German Interdisciplinary S3 guideline].Urologie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2026Review
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- Point-prevalence of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use in a tertiary hospital in Shanghai, China: 2012-2023.Antimicrobial resistance and infection control · 2026Observational
- [Perioperative antibiotic prophylaxis-The new German S3 guideline].Die Anaesthesiologie · 2025Review
- [Empirical antibiotic therapy in life-threatening infections-current concepts and controversies].Die Anaesthesiologie · 2025Article
- Broad-spectrum and Watch antimicrobials are commonly used to treat hospital-acquired infections in German acute care hospitals: results from the 2022 national point prevalence survey.Antimicrobial resistance and infection control · 2025Article
- Kinetic Patterns of Antibiotic Consumption in German Acute Care Hospitals from 2017 to 2023.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Risk factors for detection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in clinical samples upon hospital admission.Antimicrobial resistance and infection control · 2025Article
- In Reply.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2025Article
- Point Prevalence Rate Useful Only to a Limited Extent.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2025Article
- [Antibiotic prescribing trends in German acute care hospitals from 2012/13 through 2021/22].Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift (1946) · 2025Article
- An in-depth analysis of antimicrobial prescription quality in 10 non-university hospitals, in southwest Germany, 2021.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundA national point prevalence survey (PPS) of healthcare-associated infections (HAI) and antibiotic use (AU) was carried out in Germany in 2022 in the framework of the European PPS conducted by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). The objective was to determine the prevalence of HAI and AU in German hospitals and to compare the obtained values with those of the most recent previous PPS, which was carried out in 2016.
methodsThe German National Reference Center for the Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections was entrusted with the organization of the PPS of 2022. As recommended by the ECDC, each hospital in a representative sample of 50 hospitals was invited to participate, and all other interested hospitals in Germany were also able to participate if desired. The data were collected by specially trained hospital staff in May, June, and July 2022. The definitions and methods put forth by the ECDC were used.
resultsData from 66 586 patients in 252 hospitals were included. The prevalence of HAI in all participating hospitals was 4.9%, and that of AU was 26.9%. The HAI and AU prevalences were essentially unchanged in comparison to 2016. The most common types of HAI were surgical site infection (23.5%), lower respiratory tract infection (21.6%), and urinary tract infection (19.0%).
conclusionHAI were just as frequent in 2022 as in 2016, affecting approximately one in twenty hospitalized patients on any given day.
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