In Europe, every year, more than 4 million patients are affected by about 4.5 million episodes of hospital infections related to care, causing 16 million days of additional hospital stay, 37 thousand deaths and cost 7...
In Italy the 5-8% of all patients develop an infection associated with healthcare procedures (IPA), amounting 450.000/700.000 cases, with 4.500 to 7.500 deaths directly attributable and about 3.750.000 days in hospital for...
Operations or treatments in the wrong patient or the wrong parts of the body, as a consequence of an identification's error; transfusion and communication errors [...]: these hazards more frequent for an inpatient in a...
Infections in hospitals cause more deaths than traffic accidents. The numbers, chilling, were made known by the experts at the Annual Congress of the Italian Society of Infectious and Tropical Diseases (Simit). If it wos...
Every year 7000/10,000 people die during their hospitalisation for an infection just taken in the hospital. In the surgery or the ward while they are being treated for a whole other reason.