{"id":12035,"date":"2024-05-16T14:01:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T11:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=12035"},"modified":"2024-05-16T14:01:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T11:01:20","slug":"new-platform-in-the-works-to-monitor-hospital-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=12035","title":{"rendered":"New platform in the works to monitor hospital infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/new-platform-in-the-works-to-monitor-hospital-infections.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The government on Thursday announced <strong>plans to launch an electronic platform to monitor healthcare-associated infections<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cypru-video-ads\" id=\"cypru-1043289568\">\n<div id=\"cypru-489984628\" data-cypru-trackid=\"478051\" data-cypru-trackbid=\"1\" class=\"cypru-target\">\n<div id=\"gpt-ad-6691508339343-0\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A healthcare-associated infection is the technical term for an infection contracted by a patient while receiving health care for another condition.<br \/>\nSpeaking to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA), health ministry medical services director Elisavet Constantinou said Cyprus currently has no continuous surveillance of healthcare-associated infections.<br \/>\nShe said indicative recordings are taken and registered with the World Health Organisation but that <strong>the current methods are not thorough enough<\/strong> as not all hospitals are obliged to participate and provide the relevant data.<br \/>\nHer words were echoed by infectious diseases epidemiological surveillance and control unit officer Markella Markou, who said there is \u201cno organised system\u201d for healthcare-associated infections to be monitored.<br \/>\nWith this in mind, she said the new platform is expected to be up and running by the end of next year.<br \/>\nShe said the process of continuously keeping track of healthcare-associated infections is \u201ca big investment and a very time-consuming process\u201d, but that the new platform \u201cwill help hospitals carry out their surveillance electronically <strong>so this data can be monitored by the health ministry<\/strong>.\u201d<br \/>\nThe announcement of the new platform comes after the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) published a report showing that Cyprus has the highest rate of healthcare-associated infections of any country in the European Union.<br \/>\nConstantinou said on Thursday the report showed a \u201cdeterioration\u201d for Cyprus, but that <strong>all countries are \u201crecording deteriorations\u201d by the same measurement<\/strong> due to the aftereffects of the Covid-19 pandemic.<br \/>\nThe ECDC\u2019s report showed that A total of 13.8 per cent of patients in Cyprus have at least one healthcare-associated infection. This number is more than double the median figure of all 27 EU member states and four members of the European Economic Area, which stands at 6.8 per cent.<br \/>\nIn addition, <strong>Cyprus has the highest rate of antimicrobial use in the EU and EEA<\/strong>, with 56.5 per cent of hospital patients in the country being prescribed some form of antimicrobial medication.<br \/>\nThe country with the second highest prevalence of healthcare-associated infections was Greece, with a rate of 12.2 per cent, while Portugal had the third highest rate, 11.6 per cent.<br \/>\nBy contrast, Latvia had the lowest prevalence of healthcare-associated infections, with just three per cent of patients having contracted an extra infection while receiving treatment. Romania and Bulgaria had the second and third lowest prevalences, with 3.1 per cent and 3.7 per cent respectively.<br \/>\n<strong>Greece also had the second-highest rate of antimicrobial use in the EU and EEA<\/strong>, 55.3 per cent, with Bulgaria having the third highest prevalence, 47.9 per cent, despite having the second lowest prevalence of healthcare associated infections in the EU and EEA.<br \/>\nAt the other end of the scale, Hungary had the lowest rate of antimicrobial use in the EU and EEA, at just 20.8 per cent, while France had the second lowest rate, 22.7 per cent. Germany had the third lowest rate, at 26.2 per cent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government plans to launch an electronic platform to monitor healthcare-associated infections. The current methods of monitoring infections in Cyprus are not thorough enough, and the new platform will help hospitals carry out surveillance electronically so the data can be monitored by the health ministry. Cyprus has the highest rate of healthcare-associated infections in the EU and EEA, as well as the highest rate of antimicrobial 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