Five years of proactive surveillance
- Period
- 0 years
- Samples
- 0
- Reports
- 0
- HAI prevalence
- < 0%
Research in data
Peer-reviewed results, readable in a minute.
My papers, and the context they sit in, redrawn as simple animated charts. Numbers are taken directly from the published studies; each chart links to its source on PubMed.
Why it matters
The scale of the problem in Europe
Healthcare-associated infections are one of the most common harms in hospital care. Most of the work to prevent them happens in water systems, air, surfaces, devices and hands, long before anyone is ill.
0million
patients a year acquire an infection in EU/EEA hospitals
● = 100,000 patients
How to read these charts
Charts show figures exactly as published. Where a study reports a finding without a number (for example, “high sensitivity”), the chart shows the finding, not an invented value. Ward labels in the checklist chart are illustrative.
Five studies
From the ward, in numbers.
What 542 colleagues know about hand hygiene
- 0%usually use alcohol-based hand rub
- 0%trained in the last three years
- 0%response rate: 542 of 6,749 staff
A checklist that found the gaps
Round 1Round 2
Ward A Excellent on every item Excellent on every item
Ward B Gaps found Improved after corrective action
Ward C Gaps found Improved after corrective action
Microbiology on the devices
ICU bronchoscope
ICU bronchoscope
Endoscope reprocessor
Endoscope reprocessor
Unsatisfactory after round 1 Good after round 2
Building work on a haematology ward
With renovation worksWithout works
Galactomannan antigen positivity, a proxy for invasive aspergillosis, in profoundly immunocompromised patients. No increase in cases was recorded during renovation.
Rapid PCR as a Legionella screen
- 2011–2014 water samples from hospital wards, tested by both standard culture and real-time PCR
- High sensitivity and negative predictive value make PCR a quick screening tool to exclude Legionella pneumophila