Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI) are likely to be the most common complication of hospital care. Data on HAI in hospitals in country like India are scarce and often inconsistent. Hospital infection control practices remain rudimentary in the developing world, mostly due to severely limited resources. This study was therefore designed to investigate the awareness level about HAI among hospitals, to know the most recognized sources and anti-infective therapy used for such infections in the selected region. It was a simple, exploratory and comparative study conducted for a period of 3 months. 24 tertiary care hospitals in Nagpur city were included in this study by random convenience sampling method. Survey research design method was used for the study, which involved data collection through the responses to the predetermined questions. Urinary Tract Infection was the most common infection with 37.50% respondents, followed by gastro intestinal tract Infection (20.83%) and Respiratory Tract Infection (12.50%). 86.9% respondents used beta-lactum antibiotics as a drug of choice followed by cephalosporin and fluoroquinolone. 55% of hospitals preferred causative anti-infective therapy where as 45% hospitals preferred preventive. The study concluded that majority of hospitals surveyed were using proper anti-infective therapy depending on the infections. Most of the hospitals were using general antibiotic therapy mostly depending upon the type of organism and its culture sensitivity. Most of the hospitals preferred causative approach rather than preventive approach as an anti-infective therapy and over 70% don’t maintain any manual for anti-infective therapy.
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