The report of Global Hospital-Acquired Infections Market by Market Research
Future comprises extensive primary research along with detail analysis of qualitative as well
as quantitative aspects by various industry experts and key opinion leaders to gain a deeper
insight of the market and industry performance.
A hospital acquired infection (HAI) or nosocomial infection or health care associated
infection (HAI or HCAI), is an infection that is acquired in a health care facility. The infection
acquired in health care facility by a patient must be other than the one for which the patient
was admitted and includes infections acquired in the hospital however effects and symptoms
appear after discharge. The HAI also includes occupational infection among staff of the
hospital.
The Global Hospital Acquired Infections Market was $23.7 billion in 2016 and is expected to
reach around $36.16 billion by the end of the forecast period growing at a CAGR of 7.3%.
The infection can originate from outside environment, another infected patient, or from staff
that may be infected; in some cases, the source of the infection cannot be determined.
There are cases where microorganism originates from the patient's own skin micro biota,
becoming opportunistic after surgery or other procedures that compromise the protective
skin barrier. WHO estimates that 8.7% of hospital patients had nosocomial infections
affecting over 1.4 million people worldwide.
The market’s driving factors are nature and virulence of the microbial agent, patient
susceptibility such as immunity, presence of other diseases, environmental factors such as
infected materials and bacterial load in hospitals, crowding, temperature and humidity etc.,
bacterial resistance to drugs, the age of patient., high prevalence of HAI, lack of awareness,
poor training and infection control practices, poor hospital infrastructure and regulation, low
expenditure on healthcare, rise of chronic diseases with prolonged stay in hospitals etc.
The market restraints are growth of microbial resistance, spurious and counterfeit products,
off label use of antiseptics and drugs, rise of disposables, increasing use of quality
construction material such as ceramics and glass in buildings, huge fragmentation of market
& number of players, loss of patents & great penetration of generics etc. The technology
advancement in the form of gas plasma sterilization technology will drive the future global
HAI market.
Key Players for Global Hospital-acquired infections Market:
Advanced Sterilization Products, 3M Company, Becton Dickinson and company, STERIS
Corporation, Getinge AB, Cantel Medical Corp., Belimed AG, and others.
Segments:
Global Hospital Acquired Infections Market has been segmented on the basis of pathogen
types which comprises of viral, bacterial and fungal. On the basis of method of treatment
the market is segmented into sterilization, chemical, radiation and on the basis of infection
type market is segmented into urinary tract infections, blood stream infections, surgical site
infections, gastrointestinal infections, and respiratory infections.
Regional Analysis of Global Hospital-acquired infections Market: