The prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections requires coordinated efforts at all levels of healthcare organisations. The 'Council recommendation 2009/C of 9 June 2009 on patient safety, including the prevention and control of healthcare associated infections' and the European...

The main objective of the European protocol for the surveillance of SSIs is to ensure standardisation of definitions, data collection and reporting procedures for hospitals participating in the national/regional surveillance of surgical site infections across Europe, in order to contribute to...

The harmonisation of training programmes for infection control/hospital hygiene (IC/HH) professionals in Europe was emphasised by European Council recommendation 2009/C 151/01 of 9 June 2009 on patient safety, including the prevention and control of healthcare associated infections and a number...

The main objective of this protocol is to ensure standardisation of definitions, data collection and reporting procedures for hospitals participating in the national/regional surveillance of HAIs in ICUs across Europe, in order to contribute to the EU surveillance of HAIs, and to improve the...

The objectives of the ECDC point prevalence survey of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and antimicrobial use (AU) in acute care hospitals are as follows: - to estimate the total burden (prevalence) of HAIs and antimicrobial use in acute care hospitals in the EU - to describe patients,...

This report describes the results of an epidemiological and genomic study carried out in six hospitals in Romania to determine the extent of the spread of Providencia stuartii carrying blaNDM-1. Most of the 74 submitted P. stuartii isolates were resistant to penicillins, cephalosporins,...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) viruses continue to be widespread in wild bird populations across the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA). Viruses circulating in wild birds have spilled over to both wild and domestic/farmed animals, leading to outbreaks in poultry and other...

In 2022-2023, 28 EU/EEA countries and three Western Balkan countries (Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia) participated in the third ECDC point prevalence survey (PPS) of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and antimicrobial use in European acute care hospitals. Data from a total of 1 623...

This protocol describes a survey undertaken to acquire a snapshot of the distribution of Clostridioides difficile strains in tertiary acute care hospitals in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) in 2022-2023. This activity supports subsequent risk assessment by enabling the...

European surveillance of healthcare-associated infections in intensive care unitThe Council Recommendation of 9 June 2009 on patient safety (2009/C 151/01), which also addresses the prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections (HAI), recommends 'performing the surveillance of the...