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Research Article

Incidence of Central Venous Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections: Evaluation of Bundle Prevention in Two Intensive Care Units in Central Brazil

Table 2

Evaluated variables and indicators in the adult ICU. Central Brazil. 2012-2015.


Variables and indicators	All	Periods		p value
Variables and indicators	All	Preintervention	Postintervention	p value

Number of patients-days	11.446	7.995	3.451	-
Number of episodes of HAIs	347	270	77	-
Incidence density of HAIs (95.0% CI)	30.3 (27.3-33.6)	33.8 (30.0-38.0)	22.3 (17.9-27.8)	< 0.001
CL utilization (%) (95.0% CI)	82.0 (81.3-82.7)	85.6 (84.9-86.4)	73.6 (72.1-75.1)	< 0.001
Number of new cases of CLABSIs	32	25	7	-
Number of deaths from CLABSIs	1	7	3	-
Lethality with CVC-BSIs (%) (95.0% CI)	31.3 (18.0-49.6)	28.0 (14.3-47.6)	42.9 (15.8-75.0)	0.459
CVC-days	9.387	6.847	2.540	-
Incidence density of CVC-BSIs (95.0%CI)	3.40 (2.41-4.80)	3.65 (2.47-5.38)	2.75 (1.33-5.47)	0.469

95.0% CI: 95.0% Confidence Interval; a. Preintervention period: January 2012 to October 2014; b. Postintervention period: November 2014 to December 2015; c. Wald Statistics; d. Wald Statistics obtained in fitted Poisson model. CL: Central Line; CVC: Central venous catheter; CVC-BSIs: Central venous catheter-associated bloodstream infections; HAIs: Healthcare-associated infections; ICU: Intensive Care Unit.