Table 4.

CLABSI prevention: measurements by income category, as reported by ICU doctors and nurses in 2015

Measurements	Middle income countries (14 countries)		High income countries (27 countries)
	N = 836		N = 2414
	%a	SEb	%a	SEb
Measurement of compliance to recommendations at least one a year
Central line insertion	72	2.0	66	1.5
Daily assessment of a need for a central line	72	2.0	59	1.5
Disinfection practices when accessing the central line	73	2.0	59	1.5
Hand hygiene	81	2.1	73	1.5
“In my ICU, there is a written definition of CLABSI for data collection”
Yes	78	1.7	70	1.2
“In my ICU, we count and record, routinely…” (% saying “yes”)
CLABSI	73	1.8	81	0.9
Days since last CLABSI	39	2.0	57	1.4
Respondents reporting data (%)- for part or all of 2015
CLABSI Rate (either per central-line days, or per patient-days)	16	1.5	26	1.4
“Clinical staff in my ICU is aware of CLABSI-related data, and their trends” (% agree strongly/agree)	76	2.0	67	1.4

^aAbsolute numbers are not reported because percentages are weighted estimates

^bStandard Error