Table 1.
Comparison of bacteremia and CLABSI incidence during the periods before and after catheter repair
| Definitions of bloodstream infection and catheter days at risk | Infections per 1,000 catheter days |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-repair Mean(SD) | Post-repair Mean(SD) | IRRa | 95% C.I. | P value | |
| Bacteremia: | |||||
| All catheter days included | 9.88 (17.83) | 24.49 (59.44) | 1.87 | 1.05–3.33 | 0.03 |
| Days on antibiotics excluded | 8.99 (24.52) | 33.79 (96.16) | 4.13 | 1.69–10.06 | 0.002 |
| CLABSI: | |||||
| All catheter days included | 6.17 (15.01) | 14.85 (45.39) | 2.15 | 1.02–4.53 | 0.045 |
| Days on antibiotics excluded | 7.74 (23.74) | 21.10 (75.08) | 4.07 | 1.43–11.57 | 0.008 |
a
Average within-patient incidence rate ratio estimated from conditional Poisson regression for matched data