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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 3

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


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

Number of patients-days	3.791	2.575	1.216	-
Number of episodes of HAIs	51	35	16	-
Incidence density of HAIs (95.0% CI)	13.5(10.2-17.6)	13.6 (9.8-18.8)	12.2 (8.1-21.3)	0.783
CL utilization (%) (95.0% CI)	54.8 (53.2-56.3)	49.6 (47.7-51.6)	66.5 (63.8-69.1)	< 0.001
Number of new cases of CLABSIs	7	4	3	-
Number of deaths from CLABSIs	-	-	-	-
Lethality with CVC-BSIs (%) (95.0% CI)	-	-	-	-
CVC-days	2.078	1.269	809	-
Incidence density of CVC-BSIs (95.0%CI)	3.36(1.63-6.93)	3.15(1.22-8.07)	3.70(1.26-10.84)	0.834

95.0% CI: 95.0% Confidence Interval; a. Preintervention period: January 2012 to August 2014; b. Postintervention period: September 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.