List risk factors.
Age > 70 years
Lengthy hospital stays; pathogen transmission can occur via:
Medical staff (e.g., insufficient disinfection of hands, clothing)
Contact surfaces (e.g., equipment, furniture)
Contaminated indoor air (e.g., via droplets)
Iatrogenic: caused by a therapeutic or a diagnostic procedure
Foreign bodies (e.g., catheters, intravenous catheters, endotracheal tubes) and invasive instruments
Multiple interventional procedures (e.g., in patients with shock, major trauma, acute renal failure, coma)
Mechanical ventilation
Hemodialysis
Recent antibiotic use
Metabolic diseases (especially diabetes mellitus)
Immunosuppression
Common causative pathogens overview (table).
Hospital aquired infections overview (table).
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