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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Infect Control. 2017 May 11;45(9):990–994. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2017.03.023

Table 2.

Hospital Associated Infections (HAI), by Study Phase

Infections, Bath Basin Phase (rate/1000 patient days))
N=7981 patient days
Infections, Washcloth Phase (rate/1000 patient days))
N=8053 patient days
IRR (95% CI) p
Total HAI 16 (2.0) 17 (2.1) 1.05 (0.50–2.23) 0.88
Device Infections 0 (0) 6 (0.7) --- ---
Total BSI 2 (0.3) 4 (0.5) 1.98 (0.28–21.9) 0.46
 CLABSI 0 3 (0.4) ---
 BSI, non-CLABSI 2 (0.3) 1 (0.1) 0.50 (0.008– 9.52) 0.62
Wound 3 (0.4) 1 (0.1) 0.33 (0.006– 4.11) 0.37
 SSI 3 (0.4) 0 (0) ---
 Wound, non-SSI 0 1 (0.1) ---
Total UTI 6 (0.8) 6 (0.7) 0.99 (0.26–3.71) 0.99
 CAUTI 0 (0) 3 (0.4) --- ---
 UTI, non-CAUTI 6 (0.8) 3 (0.4) 0.50 (0.08–2.32) 0.34
CDAD 5 (0.6) 6 (0.7) 1.19 (0.30–4.93) 0.79

IQR: Inter-Quartile Range; AIDS: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; BSI: Blood Stream Infections; CLABSI: Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infections; SSI: Surgical Site Infections; UTI: Urinary Tract Infections; CAUTI: Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection; CDAD: Clostridium Difficile Associated Disease; IRR: Incidence Rate Ratio.