# Creating an ICU survey

There are two Intensive Care Unit (ICU) survey options:

• Standard: Patient-based option allows advanced risk adjustment of healthcare-associated infection rates for inter-hospital comparisons. You enter all patient data for all patients, including those without HAI and/or antimicrobial use. Risk factors are collected for each patient (infected or not).

• Light: Unit-based option is less labour-intensive solution, produces partially the same indicators as Standard option for follow-up of trends, as well as the same descriptive results about infections and antimicrobial resistance, but with less possibility for risk-adjusted comparisons. You only enter patient data for patients with any antimicrobial use and/or a healthcare-associated infection. Consequently, in the Light protocol, each patient record must include details of at least one antimicrobial use or HAI. Denominator data are aggregated at the unit (ICU) level.

Case definitions, included patients, and infection data (including antimicrobial resistance data and mortality review data) are identical in both options.

Further details are provided in the HAI-Net ICU protocol (see Related documents).

PPS data collection is described in the following sections:

• Entering an ICU hospital surveillance year

• Entering ICU surveillance year and surveillance period data

• Entering ICU patient, HAI and antimicrobial use data

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