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Table 3 Catheter-related bloodstream infection rate in pre- and post-intervention periods in Hung Vuong Hospital, Vietnam

From: Enhanced infection control interventions reduced catheter-related bloodstream infections in the neonatal department of Hung Vuong Hospital, Vietnam, 2011–2012: a pre- and post-intervention study

Period

Cases

Catheter-days

Rate/1000 catheter-days

RR (95% CI)

Pre-intervention

53

8399

6.31

 

Post-intervention

32

8324

3.84

0.61 (0.39–0.94)

  1. RR rate ratio, CI confidence interval Wald χ2 statistics were used to test the significance of individual coefficients