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Children more likely to suffer hospital infection than adults

Quality Improvement Monitor, June 6, 2008

Children suffer many hospital acquired infections, reports The St. Louis Post Dispatch. The study found that 6,600 out of 430,000 children hospitalized in 2006 at 38 children's hospitals around the country had complications from care after examining thousands of medical records looking for adverse events. Children are more susceptible than adults to suffer complications of hemorrhaging and postoperative infections, though less likely to suffer others, like bedsores, which adults often contract.

Safety efforts are often focused on adults; however, hospitals are becoming more aware of the need to identify and prevent hospital-acquired infections in children, the article says.

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