Hong Kong Training Portal on
Infection Control and Infectious Disease

Healthcare-Associated Infections

• Chlorhexidine vs Povidone-Iodine and Incidence of Catheter-Related Infections: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (February 12, 2026)
• Incidence of health-care-associated infections in long-term care facilities in nine European countries: a 12-month, prospective, longitudinal cohort study (November 2025)
• Not only COVID-19: a systematic review of anti-COVID-19 measures and their effect on healthcare-associated infections (February 27, 2024)
• Health Care–Associated Infections Among Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19, March 2020-March 2022 (April 13, 2023)
• SHEA/IDSA/APIC Practice Recommendation: Strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections through hand hygiene: 2022 Update (February 8, 2023)
• Epidemiology of healthcare-associated infection reported from a hospital-wide incidence study: considerations for infection prevention and control planning (March 4, 2021)

Surgical Site Infection

• Antibiotic Prophylaxis Strategies and Surgical Site Infections in Colorectal Surgery: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis (February 19, 2026)
• Guideline Adherence of Perioperative Antibiotics and Surgical Site Infections in Noncardiac Surgery (February 18, 2026)
• Systematic Review of Surgical Site Infection Prevention Guideline Recommendations for Maintenance of Homeostasis in the Perioperative Period (June 1, 2025)
• Interventions to prevent surgical site infection in adults undergoing cardiac surgery (December 2, 2024)
• Antimicrobial prophylaxis for prevention of surgical site infection in adults (November 25, 2024)
• Epidemiology and prevention of surgical site infection in Japan (April 2024)
• Incisional Wound Irrigation for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis (April 24, 2024)
• Assessment of risk factors associated with surgical site infection following abdominal surgery: a systematic review (July 27, 2023)
• Surgical Site Infection Prevention: A Review (January 17, 2023)
• Effect of postoperative continuation of antibiotic prophylaxis on the incidence of surgical site infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis (October 2020)
• The preventable proportion of healthcare-associated infections 2005–2016: Systematic review and meta-analysis (September 20, 2018)
• Summary of a systematic review on surgical antibiotic prophylaxis prolongation (2018)
• The Effect of Participating in a Surgical Site Infection (SSI) Surveillance Network on the Time Trend of SSI Rates: A Systematic Review (August 24, 2017)
• CDC Guideline for the Prevention of Surgical Site Infection, 2017 (May 3, 2017).  

Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia

• Antimicrobial Stewardship Interventions in Adults with Hospital-acquired Pneumonia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (January 12, 2026)
• Clinical practice guidelines for hospital-acquired and ventilator-associated pneumonia: a scoping review (January 6, 2026)
• Empiric antibiotic regimens in adults with non-ventilator-associated hospital-acquired pneumonia: a systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (May 30, 2024)
• Antibiotics for hospital-acquired pneumonia in neonates and children (November 2, 2021)
• Factors predicting non-ventilated hospital-acquired pneumonia: systematic review and meta-analysis (October 16, 2021)
• An overview of guidelines for the management of hospital-acquired and ventilator-associated pneumonia caused by multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria (December 2019)
• Changes in Prevalence of Health Care–Associated Infections in U.S. Hospitals (October 31, 2018)

Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI)

• Implementing multimodal nursing strategies to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infections in adult inpatients: A scoping review (January 20, 2026)
• International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) report of health care associated infections, data summary of 45 countries for 2015 to 2020, adult and pediatric units, device-associated module (January 6, 2024)
• Strategies to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections in acute-care hospitals: 2022 Update (August 25, 2023)
• APSIC guide for prevention of catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) (May 30, 2023)
• Pragmatic review of interventions to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) in adult inpatients (April 2, 2023)
• Sustained reduction in catheter-associated urinary tract infections using multi-faceted strategies led by champions: A quality improvement initiative (April 16, 2021)

Catheter-Associated Bloodstream Infection (CABSI)

• APSIC revised guidelines for prevention of central line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI): a summary and position statement (February 3, 2026)
• Bloodstream infections: mechanisms of pathogenesis and opportunities for intervention (October 17, 2024)
• Impact of central-line-associated bloodstream infections and catheter-related bloodstream infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis (August 14, 2024)
• Multinational prospective study of incidence and risk factors for central-line–associated bloodstream infections in 728 intensive care units of 41 Asian, African, Eastern European, Latin American, and Middle Eastern countries over 24 years (April 28, 2023)
• Impact on clinical outcome of follow-up blood cultures and risk factors for persistent bacteraemia in patients with gram-negative bloodstream infections: a systematic review with meta-analysis (March 7, 2023)
• Prevalence and Mortality Associated with Bloodstream Organisms: a Population-Wide Retrospective Cohort Study (March 7, 2022)
• Effectiveness of chlorhexidine dressings to prevent catheter-related bloodstream infections. Does one size fit all? A systematic literature review and meta-analysis (September 16, 2020)
• Comparative Efficacy of Antimicrobial Central Venous Catheters in Reducing Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections in Adults: Abridged Cochrane Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis (April 29, 2017)