Table 1.
Pilot hospital characteristics and midline utilisation data, January 2017–March 2018
| Site number hospital ID |
Facility characteristics | Midline data | |||||||
| Total beds (n) | Total discharges (n) | Average LOS, days | Average Charlson-Deyo Score | Midlines placed (n) |
Total midlines abstracted, n (%) | Hospital Midline utilisation rate (%) |
Median dwell time, days (IQR) |
Dwell time <5 days (%) | |
| Site 1 | 330 | 10 623 | 4.5 | 5.80 | 1248 | 150 (12.0) | 11.75 | 4 (2–6) | 67.3 |
| Site 2 | 584 | 16 657 | 3.6 | 4.76 | 1837 | 91 (5.0) | 11.03 | 5 (3–10) | 59.3 |
| Site 3 | 443 | 10 464 | 5.0 | 4.91 | 756 | 88 (11.6) | 7.22 | 6 (3–30) | 43.2 |
| Site 4 | 404 | 16 503 | 4.2 | 6.69 | 1740 | 98 (5.6) | 10.54 | 5 (2–9) | 57.1 |
| Site 5 | 317 | 10 320 | 3.9 | 6.37 | 100 | 59 (59.0) | 0.97 | 12 (8–30) | 17.0 |
| Site 6 | 305 | 2760 | 4.5 | 6.15 | 190 | 137 (72.1) | 6.88 | 4 (2–9) | 56.9 |
| Site 7 | 1070 | 35 051 | 5.1 | 5.57 | 1008 | 90 (8.9) | 2.88 | 9 (5–14) | 30.0 |
| Site 8 | 378 | 14 827 | 4.5 | 5.09 | 171 | 77 (45.0) | 1.15 | 7 (3–14) | 40.3 |
| Site 9 | 877 | 21 205 | 4.9 | 5.45 | 474 | 93 (19.6) | 2.23 | 5 (2–9) | 57.0 |
| Site 10 | 273 | 9977 | 4.1 | 4.55 | 1289 | 67 (5.2) | 12.92 | 5 (3–9) | 52.2 |
| Site 11 | 400 | 12 430 | 4.8 | 6.03 | 746 | 95 (12.7) | 6.00 | 7 (4–18) | 40.0 |
| Site 12 | 310 | 5600 | 2.5 | 5.14 | 359 | 116 (32.3) | 6.41 | 7 (4–25) | 41.4 |
| All sites | 5691 | 1 66 417 | 4.3 | 5.58 | 9918 | 1161 (11.7) | 7.04 | 6 (3–12) | 49.0 |
LOS refers to the average length of stay for patients admitted to that hospital across all services.
Midline utilisation rate=total number of midlines placed per year in adult non-surgical patients/number of adult non-surgical patients discharged per year.