### Surveillance year data

To enter surveillance year data, click ICU surveillance year in the main menu.

After entering the surveillance year data, save and click Select this ICU year in the General tab to be able to enter surveillance period data.Specifying surveillance year data, General tab

The General tab contains the ICU ward data that remain constant for all surveillance periods in the surveillance year. This tab also contains one of the structure and process indicators, i.e. the consumption of alcohol-based hand rub in the ICU in the previous year. Table 12 describes the variables in this form. Further details are provided in the HAI-Net ICU protocol (see Related documents).

To define the ICU surveillance year:

1. Specify values for the fields in the ICU surveillance year General tab. Descriptions of the variables in this form are given in Table 12. Mandatory fields are indicated by a red asterisk *. Required fields are indicated by a black asterisk *.

2. Click the Save icon or press Ctrl+S.

If any mandatory or required data field is empty when you save, e.g. because you do not yet have the data, an error and/or warning message is shown and the field label is highlighted as a reminder - in red for a mandatory field (you cannot save) or blue for a required field. See Understanding reported errors.

3. Click Select this ICU year to be able to enter an ICU surveillance period.

Table 12: ICU surveillance year General tab variables

Variable | Description
Hospital code | Inserted automatically based on the hospital selected during Hospital definition.
Surveillance year | The year previously selected for the survey. Inserted by system.
ICU code * | Unique identifier for each intensive care unit within a hospital, should remain identical in different surveillance periods/years.
ICU size * | Number of beds in the ICU.
ICU speciality * | If 80% of the patients belong to a particular category, the ICU falls within that category, otherwise the specialty is ‘Mixed’. MIX = Mixed; MED = Medical; SURG = Surgical; CORO = Coronary; BURN = Burns; NEUR = Neurosurgical; PED = Paediatric; NEON = Neonatal; O = Other; UNK = Unknown.
Percentage of intubated patients in the ICU * | Percentage of intubated patients over the past year in the ICU. Measured or estimated average percentage (not: proportion) of patients with an invasive respiratory device over the last year in the current ICU. Number from 0.00 to 100.00. This variable is used as a proxy for severity of ICU case-mix and should also be collected if pneumonia is not included in the surveillance.
Alcohol hand rub consumption during the previous year * | Total number of litres of alcohol-based hand rub delivered to the intensive care unit (usually by the hospital pharmacy) during the previous year.
Total number of patient-days during the previous year * | Total number of patient-days during the year prior to the current surveillance year (patient-days for all patients, not only for patients staying more than 2 days in the ICU). Short interruptions are not taken into account. Partial days count as one patient day. This variable is the denominator of the indicator ‘alcohol-based hand rub consumption in the ICU per 1000 patient-days’.
Infections types included in the surveillance * | Check the relevant checkbox(s) to indicate which of the four types of infection are included in the current ICU surveillance year. Included types should remain constant between different surveillance periods within the same surveillance year.
Optional antimicrobial use data collected | Check the checkbox to indicate that antimicrobial use data was collected at the patient level (blank = not collected).

More:

Specifying surveillance year data, Pilot: Feasibility tab

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