Healthcare infection statistics
The SA Health Infection Control Service (ICS) coordinates the Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI) Surveillance Program.
As part of the HAI Surveillance Program, annual HAI surveillance reports are produced and published by SA Health. These reports include detailed epidemiological analysis of aggregated and de-identified data as provided by contributors from the LHNs (and some private hospitals voluntary contributing to the ICS HAI Surveillance Program).
The most recent ICS HAI Surveillance Program reports are available as below:
- Bloodstream infections (BSI) (PDF 459KB)
- Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) (PDF 378KB)
- Multidrug-resistant organisms (MRO) (PDF 409KB)
- Surgical site infections (SSI) (PDF 729KB).
For copies of previous reports contact SA Health's Infection Control Service.