Ventilator Associated Pneumonia Rate

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Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP) Rate is the number of VAP cases per 1000 invasive ventilator days.

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Indicator: Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP) Rate
Created/Raw: Created
Program: not stated
Start Date: Jan 1 2013
End Date:
Reports: Critical Care Program Quality Indicator Report, Directors Quarterly and Annual Report (Critical Care), STB ICUs VAP Rate, CLIBSI Rate Summary, WRHA ICU Hospital-Acquired Conditions


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Number of VAP per 1000 Ventilator-days

Significance

  • VAP is a device-associated infection, the device being the artificial airway-ventilator-circuit system. VAP is associated with worse patient outcomes and higher costs.
  • Factors affecting the incidence of VAP include those from patients (severity of illness, comorbidities, etc.) and processes of care.
  • VAP rate is a measure of the incidence of VAP.

Sampling Plan / Procedure

Inclusion Criteria

  • 100% sampling for all patients on invasive mechanical ventilation via ET Tube or tracheostomy at 2300HR
  • 100% sampling for all cases with VAP incidence following the criteria listed in VAP - Ventilator Associated Pneumonia

Exclusion Criteria

Exclude non-invasive ventilation.

Frequency

  • Recording the date the VAP occurred.
  • Daily recording of dates of patient being on invasive mechanical ventilation at 2300 HR
  • Total number of ventilated days are calculated and reported on a monthly, quarterly or yearly basis based on the daily data.
  • Time Reference is calendar month, quarter or year.

Definition and Derivation

Numerator

Num = Total VAP Cases in a calendar period

Denominator

Denom =Total Vent Days on the same period as the numerator

Formula

VAP Rate = Num / Denom * 1000

Example

  • Time Reference: Calendar Dates from Jan 1, 2017 to March 31, 2017
  • Total VAP cases = 5
  • Total days patients are on invasive ventilator at 23)) HR = 688
  • VAP Rate per 1000 days = (5 / 688) * 1000 = 7.3%

Data Sources

  • Daily data for Invasive are taken on TISS28 element #48. The TISS form is being marked daily by ICU bed side nurses and quality checked by the Database Data Collectors.
  • The dates when VAP occurred are taken from the Tmp project called QAInfVAP and QA Infection VAP

SAS Program

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Report Users

Critical Care Directors and Site Managers Critical Care QI Team