Table 6.

Surgical infection prevention information

Characteristic	Withdrawn cluster
Number of infection preventionists per 250 hospital beds	5
Infection preventionists certified in infection control	1
Perform active surveillance cultures for MRSA in open fracture patients	No
Perform active surveillance cultures for VRE in open fracture patients	No
Perform active surveillance cultures for other organisms in patients with open fractures	No
Decolonization protocol for MRSA	Yes
Policies and/or guidelines on maintaining normothermia during perioperative period	Yes
Airflow system(s) in operating room	Conventional ventilation
Parameters in place in hospital operating rooms	High-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters
	Operating rooms are positive pressure
	Air changes per hour
	Temperature maintained between 20 and 24 °C and humidity between 2 and 60%