Table 5 Attitudes towards the implementation of a measurement system of infections in ICUs by income category, as reported by ICU doctors and nurses in 2015
Middle income countries (14 countries) | High income countries (27 countries) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N = 836 | N = 2414 | |||||||
Agree strongly/agree | Disagree/disagree strongly | Agree strongly/agree | Disagree/disagree strongly | |||||
%a | SEb | %a | SEb | %a | SEb | %a | SEb | |
To what extent do you agree with the following comments | ||||||||
If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it | 81 | 2.0 | 3 | 0.7 | 80 | 1.5 | 9 | 0.8 |
Monitoring of CLABSI related measures stimulates quality improvement | 96 | 2.0 | 1 | 0.3 | 91 | 1.5 | 1 | 0.7 |
These data can be used against me | 21 | 1.0 | 55 | 1.0 | 24 | 0.8 | 52 | 1.4 |
CLABSI-related data in my ICU (if any) are reliable | 74 | 2.0 | 2 | 0.2 | 68 | 1.5 | 6 | 0.6 |
I am willing to implement, or support, a CLABSI data collection system | 92 | 2.0 | 1 | 0.1 | 88 | 1.5 | 1 | 0.1 |
Clinical diagnosis of CLABSI is difficult: this makes measurement systems unreliable | 40 | 1.9 | 24 | 1.0 | 27 | 1.2 | 44 | 1.4 |
There is a difference between a definition of CLABSI for reporting, and a diagnosis of CLABSI for treatment | 54 | 2.1 | 12 | 0.4 | 47 | 1.4 | 23 | 1.1 |