VIDEO: The complex interplay between health equity, hospital infections
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HOUSTON — The risks for certain hospital-associated infections differ between urban and rural health care facilities, suggesting a nuanced relationship between health equity and the risk for infection, a study found.
Tamia M. Dixon, MPH, an epidemiologist at ASRT, and colleagues analyzed data from 14 health care facilities in nine regions of Louisiana collected in 2022 by the CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network.
The study’s findings, presented at the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Spring Conference, suggest that factors related to health equity affect the incidence of central line-associated bloodstream infections and MRSA.
In this video, Dixon explains the study’s findings and the opportunities it offers to improve health equity and the risk for hospital-associated infections at both urban and rural facilities.
“The result of the study is having a better understanding of incidence rates in Louisiana associated with these certain infections and how we can better understand and provide targeted interventions for these facilities with these high incidence rates,” Dixon said.
References:
- Dixon TM, et al. Abstract 179. Presented at: Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Spring Conference; April 16-19; Houston.
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