Data Portal

Current HAI data reports are available on this page. For previous HAI reports, please visit the Data Archive page.

Data Highlights

From the National and State Healthcare-Associated Infections Progress Report

Nationally, among acute care hospitals there was about 1-13% statistically significant decrease in specific HAI types between 2016 and 2017
Highlights of 2017 state performance compared to the 2015 national Baseline SIR of 1:
- 41 states performed better on at least two infection types
- 5 states performed worse on at least two infection types

See: Current HAI Progress Report for more information about national and state-level HAI data, measured using the standardized infection ratio (SIR).

From the HAI Hospital Prevalence Survey

On any given day, about 1 in 31 hospital patients has at least one healthcare-associated infection. Patients in the 2015 HAI Hospital Prevalence survey were at least 16% less likely than patients in the 2011 survey to have an HAI.
- 3% of hospitalized patients in the 2015 survey had one or more HAI.
- There were an estimated 687,000 HAIs in U.S. acute care hospitals in 2015. About 72,000 hospital patients with HAIs died during their hospitalizations.

Patient Safety Atlas

Interactive maps and customizable data are available through CDC’s Patient Safety Atlas (PSA) application. The PSA contains 4 datasets:

Datasets using CDC’s NHSN as the data source:

Dataset using Xponent database from QuintilesIMS (Danbury, Connecticut) as the data source:

Emerging Infections Program Healthcare-Associated Infections – Community Interface (EIP HAIC)

The EIP HAIC has published the following current data reports:

Specific HAI Organism Tracking

Additional Information

Page last reviewed: October 5, 2018