Epidemiology of Healthcare-associated Infections in Australia

Ramon Shaban, Brett Mitchell, Philip Russo, Deborough Macbeth
Elsevier
124 pages
ISBN: 978-0729543637
April 2021

Healthcare-associated Infections (HAIs) are a major threat to patient safety and the quality of healthcare globally. Despite this, Australia does not have a nationally coordinated program for the surveillance and reporting of HAIs. Epidemiology of Healthcare-associated Infections in Australia is Australia’s first peer-reviewed, evidence-based assessment of the epidemiology of HAIs using publicly available data from hospital-acquired complications (HACs), state-based surveillance systems and peer-reviewed and grey literature sources.