Table 1 Device days and infection rates for fiscal years 2001–3.

	Baseline (2001–2)	2003	p value
Ventilator days	3471	2180
VAP per 1000 ventilator‐days	7.5	3.2	0.040
Central line days	6773	4576
Infections per 1000 line‐days	5.9	3.1	0.031
Foley catheter days	7691	5780
UTI per 1000 catheter‐days	3.8	2.4	0.170
	2002	2003
Mortality	8.7	8.9
Hospital Medicare Case Mix Index	1.49	1.52
MRSA rate: total cases/(total patient days×1000)	0.7	0.5
VRE rate: total cases/(total patient days×1000)	0.5	0.1

MRSA, methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; VRE, vancomycin resistant Enterococcus; VAP, ventilator associated pneumonia; UTI, urinary tract infection