Using a standardized methodology by the National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance
System, a continuous health care–associated infections (HAIs) surveillance was conducted
in our mixed intensive care unit at a Chinese teaching hospital. During the study
period (2010-2014), 4,013 patients were hospitalized for 32,924 bed days and acquired
427 HAIs (482 HAI events), with an overall rate of 10.64% and 14.640 HAIs per 1,000
bed days. Ventilator-associated pneumonia was the most common device-associated health
care–acquired infection, with an incidence rate of 19.561 per 1,000 mechanical ventilator
days.
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Published online: August 25, 2015
Footnotes
Hui Peng and Qiang Hu contributed equally to this work.
Funding/Support: Supported by the Key University Science Research Project of Anhui Province (grant no. KJ2014ZD32).
Conflicts of Interest: None to report.
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