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Table 1 Compliance with 2% CHG bathing and reasons for failure to perform CHG bathing in 242 patients in MICU during the intervention period

From: Real-world experience of how chlorhexidine bathing affects the acquisition and incidence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) in a medical intensive care unit with VRE endemicity: a prospective interrupted time-series study

CHG daily bathing

Patient-days (%)

Subjects (n = 242)

3749

Compliance with CHG bathing (%)

 

 Full bathing

2498 (66.6)

 Partial bathinga

221 (5.9)

 Subtotal

2719 (72.5)

Reasons for non-compliance (%)

 

 Critically illb

310 (8.2)

 Dermatitis/abnormal skin conditions

195 (5.2)

 Patient’s refusal to bathe

190 (5.1)

 Absencec

142 (3.8)

 Mechanical barrierd

104 (2.8)

 Post-surgery or post-procedures

52 (1.4)

 Bedside hemodialysis

37 (1.0)

 Subtotal

1030 (27.5)

  1. CHG, chlorhexidine gluconate; MICU, medical intensive care unit
  2. aFull bathing except the back of the body, upper trunk, or extremity
  3. bPatients with unstable vital signs due to serious illness, receiving continuous renal replacement therapy, or dying patients
  4. cAbsence due to conventional hemodialysis, surgery, or other procedures
  5. dPatient with physical restraint or surgical drainage