Trends of Device Utilization Ratios in Intensive Care Units During 10 Years in South Korea: Results from the Korean National Healthcare-Associated Infections Surveillance System

摘要

BackgroundDevice-associated healthcare-associated infection (DA-HAI) is an important issue related to safety of patients. It is important to reduce unnecessary device utilization in order to decrease DA-HAI rates. Therefore, we investigate to the time trend of device utilization (DU) ratios and DA-HAI rates to analyzed collected data for 10 years through the Korean National Healthcare-associated Infections Surveillance System (KONIS) which is voluntarily participating in hospitals.