{"id":9120,"date":"2021-04-13T09:52:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T16:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9120"},"modified":"2021-04-14T09:53:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T16:53:24","slug":"hospital-acquired-infections-among-adult-patients-admitted-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/13\/hospital-acquired-infections-among-adult-patients-admitted-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospital-Acquired Infections among Adult Patients Admitted for COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">26% of patients admitted for COVID-19 (n=963) to the Johns Hopkins Health System between March and May of 2020 had either a possible, probable, or confirmed hospital acquired infection (HAI).\u00a0 Independent risk factors for development of probable\/confirmed HAI included history of congestive heart failure, dexamethasone during hospitalization, ICU admission prior to HAI, and receipt of antibiotics within 2 days of hospitalization. Of the 5% (62 of 963) patients confirmed HAI, bacteremia and bacterial pneumonia were the most common.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Smith et al.\u00a0(Apr 13, 2021). Hospital-Acquired Infections among Adult Patients Admitted for COVID-19. Infection Control &amp; Hospital Epidemiology. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/ice.2021.148\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/ice.2021.148<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>26% of patients admitted for COVID-19 (n=963) to the Johns Hopkins Health System between March and May of 2020 had either a possible, probable, or confirmed hospital acquired infection (HAI).\u00a0 Independent risk factors for development of probable\/confirmed HAI included history of congestive heart failure, dexamethasone during hospitalization, ICU admission prior to HAI, and receipt of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/13\/hospital-acquired-infections-among-adult-patients-admitted-for-covid-19\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[121,188],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-9120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-co-infection","tag-other-infections","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9121,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9120\/revisions\/9121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9120"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}