International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) national report on device-associated infection rates in 19 cities of Turkey, data summary for 2003–2012

Table 6 Pooled means and key percentiles of the distribution of ventilator-associated pneumonia rates, by type of location, adult and paediatric patients

Type of ICU	ICUs, n	Patients	Bed days	MV days	VAP, n	VAP rate	95% CI	Percentiles*
Type of ICU	ICUs, n	Patients	Bed days	MV days	VAP, n	VAP rate	95% CI	10	25	50	75	90
Medical Cardiac	4	5, 380	22 743	5,820	58	10.0	7.6 –12.9	-	-	-	-	-
Cardiothoracic	3	7,800	21 796	9,993	123	12.3	10.2 – 14.7	-	-	-	-	-
Medical	9	21 854	170 042	82 378	1836	22.3	21.3 – 23.3	8.3	12.6	22.1	32.7	-
Medical/Surgical	19	19 410	175 470	95 021	2116	22.3	21.3 – 23.2	9.6	12.8	16.5	28.6	42.9
Neurologic	2	3,784	30 966	7,405	176	23.8	20.4 – 27.6	-	-	-	-	-
Neurosurgical	3	5,691	39 719	8,859	252	28.4	25.0 – 32.2	-	-	-	-	-
Paediatric	7	4,235	32 148	17 068	200	11.7	10.2 – 13.5	2.9	6.2	10.6	14.1	-
Respiratory	2	1,754	14 054	8,156	204	25.0	21.7 – 28.7	-	-	-	-	-
Surgical	8	21 160	106 253	37 595	851	22.6	21.1 – 24.2	12.6	18.5	21.9	26.7	-
Pooled	57	91 068	613 191	272 295	5,816	21.4	20.8 – 21.9	7.2	11.2	20.5	27.7	35.4

DA module, 2003–2012.
ICU, intensive care unit; MV, mechanical ventilator; VAP, ventilator-associated pneumonia; CI, confidence interval.
*Comparisons of the percentile distribution were made if there were at least 7 locations contributing to the strata.

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