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HAIs, or Healthcare Associated Infections, represent a very frequent phenomenon in the health facilities but avoidable if measures that have been proved to be effective. In 2016 ANIPIO and the Italian Executive Nursing Committee created a "win-win partnership" and this document summarizes their position in relation to the organized interventions to be considered for the control of infectious risk - healthcare-related infections (HAIs) .
The need to expand the concept of nosocomial infections to that of healthcare- Associated Infections (HAIs) has arisen from the profound change that healthcare has undergone in recent years.
Since the 1990s, hospitals, where the majority of care interventions took place, have been joined by extra-hospital care settings such as assisted residential homes for the elderly, domiciliary care and ambulatory care.
The identification of an HAIs is based exclusively on the temporal relationship between the infection and the episode of care.
HAIs have a high impact on healthcare costs, can have a different degree of severity and are considered indicators of the quality of service provided. They affect both patients and, albeit rarely, professionals involved in care practices.
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Position statement ANIPIO-Executive Nursing Committee 