HAI

Medical abbreviation · Hospital

HAI stands for Healthcare-associated infection, a hospital abbreviation.

Infection that patients acquire while receiving care for another condition, such as central line infections, catheter-associated urinary infections, surgical site infections, pneumonia and C. difficile.

Example: HAI surveillance: no CLABSI on unit for 400 days.

Usage notes

The CDC estimates that on any given day about 1 in 31 US hospital patients has at least one healthcare-associated infection. Hospitals report many HAIs to the CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network. "Nosocomial infection" is an older term for hospital-acquired infections.

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