Abstract
With this survey, we investigated healthcare-associated invasive mold infection (HA-IMI) surveillance and air sampling practices in US acute-care hospitals. More than half of surveyed facilities performed HA-IMI surveillance and air sampling. HA-IMI surveillance was more commonly performed in academic versus nonacademic facilities. HA-IMI case definitions and sampling strategies varied widely among respondents.
Highlights
In our survey of US SRN acute-care hospitals, most facilities performed prospective Healthcare-associated invasive mold infections (HA-IMIs) surveillance (69%) and most utilized air sampling for mold (62%) as part of HA-IMI prevention or investigation efforts
The relatively high percentage of participants engaged in HA-IMI surveillance likely reflects that respondents were mostly from academic institutions caring for patient populations at high risk for IMIs
Facilities differed in both how IMIs were defined and how they were determined to be healthcare-associated, mirroring the diversity of case definitions that have been applied in previous HA-IMI cluster investigations.[3]
Summary
23 (62.2%) hospitals reported performing any type of air sampling for mold (Table 2).
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