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Welcome to ADVIN Association to Defend Victims of Nosocomial Infections

Have you ever been admitted to the hospital for surgery or illness? Have you ever caught an infection unrelated to your surgery or illness? If so, you have been the victim of a nosocomial infection also known as hospital-acquired infections.

C. difficile, MRSA (methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus), are well known, but there are many others.

Do you know that you have more chances to die from a nosocomial infection than from a car accident?

Every year in Quebec, 90 000 people are afflicted by these infections and, of that number, 4000 die immediately.
A minimum of 50% of these infections could be avoided by better prevention and control measures such as strict hand hygiene.

Nosocomial infections are also very costly to the health system. On average they cost 180 millions dollars yearly.
By joining ADVIN you contribute to the promotion of safe care and quality hospitals.
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Statistics to ponder  E-mail
Written by Christine Besson   
Tuesday, 10 January 2006
Here are some sobering statistics to ponder:

•An extensive study by HealthGrades, a leading health-care quality rating organization, reported that 194,000 people died in each of the years 2000, 2001 and 2002 from preventable medical errors in American hospitals.

•The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that 90,000 deaths per year resulted from hospital-acquired infections. This adds more than $5 billion to the nation's health-care costs, according to the CDC.

If the CDC listed hospital-acquired infections in their statistics on leading causes of death in America, it would be ahead of diabetes, pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease.
 
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