Turning prevalence into incidence to determine the burden of healthcare associated infections

<p>In this week's episode, Martin Kiernan talks to Brett Mitchell about his recent paper that estimates the burden of HCAI from a prevalence study.</p> <p>Papers discussed are:</p> <p>Lydeamore MJ, Mitchell BG, Bucknall T, Cheng AC, Russo PL, Stewardson AJ Burden of five healthcare associated infections in Australia. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control 2022; 11: 69. <a href='https://aricjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13756-022-01109-8'>https://aricjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13756-022-01109-8</a></p> <p>Russo PL, Stewardson AJ, Cheng AC, Bucknall T, Mitchell BG The prevalence of healthcare associated infections among adult inpatients at nineteen large Australian acute-care public hospitals: a point prevalence survey. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control 2019; 8: 114. <a href='https://aricjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13756-019-0570-y'>https://aricjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13756-019-0570-y</a> </p>