The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released its most up-to-date report on healthcare-associated-infection (HAI) estimates from 2011, according to an article on the Becker's Hospital Review website. 

The report shows the incidence of HAIs has slightly decreased, with the 2011 data estimating 721,800 infections and the National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance system data from 1990 to 2002 estimating 1.7 million infections, the article said.

The article includes 17 findings and statistics from the CDC's "Multistate Point-Prevalence Survey of Health Care-Associated Infections." The first five are:

1. In 2011, 4 percent of inpatients at acute-care hospitals had at least one HAI, totaling approximately 648,000 patients with 721,800 infections.

2. One in 25 patients will contract at least one infection during a hospital stay.

3. Approximately 75,000 patients with HAIs died during hospitalization.

4. Pneumonia and surgical site infections were the most common HAIs, each accounting for 21.8 percent of all infections.

5. Gastrointestinal infections accounted for 17.1 percent of all HAIs.

Read the article.