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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 3.
Published in final edited form as: Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2012 Jul 24;33(9):869–874. doi: 10.1086/667378

Table 3.

Central Line Utilization in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and Inpatient Wards

ICU
 Inpatient wards (non-ICU)
Hospital Patient-days Catheter-days DU ratioa Patient-days Catheter-days DU ratioa
A 5,799 4,444 0.77 131,212 54,525 0.42
B 42,855 23,803 0.56 121,324 28,982 0.24
C 36,142 18,629 0.52 41,764 13,898 0.33
D 32,010 18,769 0.59 156,319 44,669 0.29
E 16,151 6,827 0.42 73,634 6,965 0.09
F 27,454 13,727 0.50 183,270 21,992 0.12
G 31,163 14,253 0.46 116,498 19,399 0.17
H 50,327 29,595 0.59 218,950 57,487 0.26
I 22,317 15,973 0.72 90,863 22,301 0.25
J 49,735 25,558 0.51 209,441 51,115 0.24
Pooled meanb 9,186,473 4,589,378 0.50 1,593,932 10,675,140 0.15
a

Device utilization (DU) ratio p central line–days/patient-days.

b

National Healthcare Safety Network pooled mean for 2009.