{"id":1663010,"date":"2025-09-24T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T07:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nosoinfo.be\/nosoinfos\/?p=1663010"},"modified":"2025-09-24T08:00:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T07:00:41","slug":"healthcare-associated-infections-and-use-of-antimicrobials-in-long-term-care-facilities-halt-studies-halt-4-reports-published2023-2024-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nosoinfo.be\/nosoinfos\/healthcare-associated-infections-and-use-of-antimicrobials-in-long-term-care-facilities-halt-studies-halt-4-reports-published2023-2024-2\/?lang=nl","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare-associated infections and use of antimicrobials in long-term care facilities (HALT studies): HALT-4 reports published(2023-2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1661100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nosoinfo.be\/nosoinfos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ecdc-01-750x1060.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"1060\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nosoinfo.be\/nosoinfos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ecdc-01-750x1060.jpg 750w, http:\/\/www.nosoinfo.be\/nosoinfos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ecdc-01-725x1024.jpg 725w, http:\/\/www.nosoinfo.be\/nosoinfos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ecdc-01-768x1085.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.nosoinfo.be\/nosoinfos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ecdc-01-228x322.jpg 228w, http:\/\/www.nosoinfo.be\/nosoinfos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ecdc-01-42x60.jpg 42w, http:\/\/www.nosoinfo.be\/nosoinfos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ecdc-01.jpg 789w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Belgium : <\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b>National report 2023-2024 (in Dutch or French)<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n<h2 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Abstract<\/b><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">De vierde puntprevalentiestudie in chronische zorginstellingen (HALT-4), uitgevoerd in 2023-2024 in Belgi\u00eb, maakte deel uit van een Europees project dat wordt geco\u00f6rdineerd door Sciensano in samenwerking met het Europees Centrum voor Ziektepreventie en \u2013bestrijding (ECDC). Het belangrijkste doel van deze studie was het meten van de prevalentie van actieve zorginfecties en het gebruik van systemische antimicrobi\u00eble middelen in chronische zorginstellingen. In totaal werden 8 816 bewoners en pati\u00ebnten, verdeeld over 79 chronische zorginstellingen, opgenomen in de studie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">Negenzestig woonzorgcentra (WZC) namen deel aan de HALT-4 studie. Van deze instellingen bevonden 35 WZC (50,7%) zich in Vlaanderen, waarvan 33 deelnamen in het najaar van 2023 en twee in het voorjaar van 2024. In Walloni\u00eb namen 30 WZC (43,5%) deel, met twee WZC in het najaar van 2023 en 28 in het voorjaar van 2024. De vier Brusselse WZC (5,8%) namen allen deel in het voorjaar van 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">Meer dan de helft van de WZC bewoners (59,4%) was ouder dan 85 jaar en 28,0% was mannelijk. Een meerderheid vertoonde desori\u00ebntatie in tijd en\/of ruimte (57,9%) en was incontinent voor urine en\/of stoelgang (66,5%). De medische zorg werd in 63,8% van de WZC verleend door bezoekende huisartsen, in 34,8% door een combinatie van behandelend artsen en een interne vaste medische staf en in \u00e9\u00e9n WZC (1,4%) uitsluitend door interne artsen. Bijna alle WZC (97,1%) hadden een co\u00f6rdinerend raadgevende arts (CRA).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">Op het gebied van infectiepreventie en -bestrijding (IPC) beschikte 72,5% van de WZC over ten minste \u00e9\u00e9n opgeleid persoon, meestal verpleegkundigen en soms artsen. Handhygi\u00ebne-opleidingen werden gegeven in 58,0% van de WZC en was voornamelijk gericht op verpleegkundigen en paramedisch personeel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">De gemiddelde en mediane prevalentie van bewoners met minstens \u00e9\u00e9n actieve zorginfectie bedroeg respectievelijk 2,5% en 1,6%. In totaal werden 178 infecties gerapporteerd. De meest voorkomende infecties waren luchtweginfecties (42,7%), urineweginfecties (35,4%) en huidinfecties (12,9%).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">De mediane prevalentie van bewoners met ten minste \u00e9\u00e9n systemische antimicrobi\u00eble behandeling bedroeg 3,8%. Er werden 347 antimicrobi\u00eble middelen gerapporteerd. In totaal werd 64,0% van de systemische antimicrobi\u00eble behandelingen therapeutisch toegediend. Voor 61,7% van de antimicrobi\u00eble middelen was een eind- of revisiedatum bekend. In geval van profylactisch voorgeschreven antimicrobi\u00eble middelen was de eind- of revisiedatum voor slechts 11,2% bekend, tegenover 90,1% voor therapeutisch voorgeschreven middelen. Antibiotica voor systemische gebruik (J01) vormden met 97,4% verreweg de meest voorgeschreven antimicrobi\u00eble middelen. De top drie voorgeschreven subklassen waren \u201coverige antibacteri\u00eble middelen\u201d (J01X; 34,3% &#8211; in het bijzonder fosfomycine en nitrofuranto\u00efne), \u201cbeta-lactam antibiotica, penicillines\u201d (J01C; 28,7% &#8211; in het bijzonder amoxicilline-clavulaanzuur) en \u201cmacroliden, lincosamiden, streptograminen\u201d (J01F; 14,5% &#8211; in het bijzonder azithromycine).<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Executive summary<\/b><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">The fourth PPS (HALT-4) had in part limited participation of LTCFs at national and local levels, often due to lack of resources of national teams to focus on HAIs and antimicrobial use in LTCFs. However, participation in the PPS was good (18 EU\/EEA countries participated) with most participating countries achieving at least good representativeness. Most of the countries performed the PPS using the ECDC standardised methodology, including the most recent protocol updates, contributing to the robustness of the results. The results of the PPS indicate that it is essential to strengthen IPC in LTCFs by ensuring core competencies for IPC professionals, allocating adequate resources for IPC programmes, implementing robust quality control and surveillance systems, developing comprehensive guidelines, and promoting awareness and training activities. Future actions should include further training for LTCF staff, prioritising hand disinfection with alcohol-based hand rub and standardised monitoring of HAIs and antimicrobial use, especially with PPSs. Additionally, collaboration of national authorities to collect and maintain comprehensive registries of LTCFs and their population is essential to improve understanding and comparability of long-term care systems across Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p4\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Om meer te weten<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">European report 2023-2024 (link is external) (including results for Belgium: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecdc.europa.eu\/en\/publications-data\/point-prevalence-survey-healthcare-associated-infections-and-antimicrobial-use-6\">https:\/\/www.ecdc.europa.eu\/en\/publications-data\/point-prevalence-survey-healthcare-associated-infections-and-antimicrobial-use-6<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"pdf24Plugin-cp\"> \t<form name=\"pdf24Form0\" method=\"post\" target=\"pdf24PopWin\" action=\"https:\/\/doc2pdf.pdf24.org\/wordpress.php\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"blogCharset\" 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