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Table 2 Development of ICU surveillance data in 103 ICUs with ongoing surveillance from 2001-2010

From: Decreasing healthcare-associated infections (HAI) is an efficient method to decrease healthcare-associated Methicillin-resistant S.aureus (MRSA) infections Antimicrobial resistance data from the German national nosocomial surveillance system KISS

Year

Patient days

Ventila-tor utiliza-tion rate

Noso-comial MSSA infections*

Noso-comial MRSA infections*

MRSA rate (%)

Incidence density of nosocomial MSSA infections*

Incidence density of nosocomial MRSA infections*

RR incidence densities of nosocomial MRSA infections* compared to baseline year 2001 (95%CI)

Incidence density of nosocomial infections*

RR incidence densities of nosocomial infections* compared to baseline year 2001 (95%CI)

2001

322990

42.3

290

120

29.3

0.90

0.37

1 = ref

7.56

1 = ref

2002

332215

41.7

252

107

29.8

0.76

0.32

0.87 (0.67-1.13)

6.74

0.89 (0.84-0.94)

2003

338819

42.1

221

101

31.4

0.65

0.30

0.8 (0.62-1.05)

6.66

0.88 (0.83-0.93)

2004

343513

42.8

230

93

28.8

0.67

0.27

0.73 (0.56-0.96)

5.80

0.77 (0.072-0.81)

2005

360684

42.9

221

135

37.9

0.61

0.37

1.01 (0.79-1.29)

6.46

0.85 (0.81-0.90)

2006

353148

42.5

207

89

30.1

0.59

0.25

0.68 0.52-0.89)

5.65

0.75 (0.70-0.79)

2007

363476

42.4

167

70

29.5

0.46

0.19

0.52 (0.39-0.70)

5.02

0.66 (0.62-0.71)

2008

372463

43.1

150

77

33.9

0.40

0.21

0.56 (0.42-0.74)

5.04

0.67 (0.63-0.71)

2009

371865

42.9

150

72

32.4

0.40

0.19

0.52 (0.39-0.70)

4.89

0.65 (0.61-0.69)

2010

380173

44.1

138

57

29.2

0.36

0.15

0.40 (0.29-0.55)

4.63

0.61 (0.58-0.65)

total

3539346

42.7

2026

921

31.3

0.57

0.26

 

5.80

 
  1. MSSA, Methicillin susceptible S.aureus; MRSA, Methicillin resistant S.aureus,;*nosocomial infections focused on microbiologically-confirmed primary bloodstream infections, X-ray-confirmed nosocomial pneumonia and nosocomial urinary tract infections