You work as an infection control specialist in a hospital and need to determine the following hospital
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You work as an infection control specialist in a hospital and need to determine the following hospital acquired infection incident rates:
Out of 129 orthopedic surgeries conducted last month, 5 patients developed a surgical site infection. What is the incidence rate of SSI infections per 100 orthopedic surgeries?
- Of the 3,456 patients admitted in the month of January, 167 developed a hospital acquired infection. What is the incidence rate of hospital wide acquired infection rates for the month of January per 100 admissions.
- In the ICU during the month of January, 35 patients were on ventilators for 4 days, and there were 12 cases of ventilator associated pneumonia during that time. What is the ventilator-associated pneumonia rate per 1,000 ventilator days?
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