#### Specifying surveillance year data, Pilot: Feasibility tab

The Pilot: Feasibility tab contains the surveillance-year part of the feasibility questionnaire (Form F) of the HAI-Net ICU pilot study. Table 13 describes the variables in this form. Further details are provided in the HAI-Net ICU protocol (see Related documents). Since this is a pre-configured User variables screen, please remember to include User variables when you export the data.

Table 13: ICU surveillance year Pilot: Feasibility tab variables

Variable | Description
AHR consumption should be optional | Should the AHR consumption indicator be kept optional in the ICU protocol? YES/NO (NO=required for all participating ICUs, leave checkbox unchecked).
Number of data collector-hours for this form | (Estimated) number of person-hours of surveillance staff (data collectors) actually spent by one or more of the data collectors, for ICU surveillance-year data only. In practice, this will be the time spent on the AHR indicator alone, e.g. time to write and send the requests to the pharmacist (for the numerator) and possibly hospital administration (for the denominator) plus the time actually spent by the pharmacist to extract the amount of litres delivered to the ICU during the previous year plus the time needed to extract the denominator data – do NOT include the waiting time needed for the reply (see dates below). Round to the nearest hour (e.g. round 45 minutes to 1 hour).
Feasibility AHR liters | Level of difficulty of collecting data the total number of litres of alcohol-based hand rub delivered to the ICU during the last year (numerator of the AHR consumption indicator). Click the appropriate choice.
Feasibility of the total number of patient-days during previous year | Level of difficulty of collecting data on the total number of ICU patient-days during the last year (denominator of the AHR consumption indicator). Click the appropriate choice.
Start/end data collection for this form | Start date and end date for the data collection of the ICU characteristics (type, size) and alcohol-based hand rub consumption during the previous year. Because ICU type and size are in principle readily available, these dates allow the calculation of the number of days (including waiting time) to receive the numerator and denominator data for the indicator AHR consumption.
Most difficult variable (if any) 1/2 | Free text. Indicate the two most difficult data items of the ICU surveillance-year data and the reasons why or encountered problems (up to 255 characters). These fields may be left empty.
Other comments | Comments regarding variables or HelicsWin.Net software. Collected once per year or on the software interface. Free text, max 255 characters. This field may be left empty.

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