hospital_infections {qicharts2}

Hospital acquired infections

Description

A dataset containing the number of hospital acquired bacteremia, Clostridium difficile infections, and urinary tract infections in six hospitals in the Capital Region of Denmark 2015-2016.

Usage

hospital_infections

Format

A data frame with 432 rows and 5 variables:

• hospital Abbreviated hospital name.

• infection Type of infection. BAC: Bacteremia, CDI: Clostridium difficile infection. UTI: Urinary tract infection.

• month First day of month.

• n Number of cases.

• days Number of risk days. A risk day is a patient day without infection.

Source

www.esundhed.dk (Capital Region of Denmark).