ICU-Acquired Infection Rates Before and After FMEA Intervention, 2024-2025

2,975 patients admitted from January to December 2024 and 1,522 patients admitted from January to June 2025 were studied in a single-cohort pre-post analysis. The dataset, authored by Meng Zhang and uploaded to figshare, documents the application of a Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)-based bundled management strategy in a specialized oncology hospital ICU. It includes outcomes such as HAI incidence, device-associated infection rates, hand hygiene compliance, and environmental cleaning quality.

Use Cases

• Evaluating the effectiveness of FMEA-based risk management strategies based on reported changes in Risk Priority Number (RPN) values.
• Analyzing trends in device-associated infection rates (VAP, CLABSI, CAUTI) before and after a bundled intervention.
• Modeling the relationship between hand hygiene compliance and overall hospital-acquired infection incidence.
• Benchmarking infection control outcomes in specialized oncology ICUs against the reported incidence rates.

Strengths

• Includes specific, quantified outcomes such as a reduction in overall HAI incidence from 2.6% to 1.6%.
• Reports detailed metrics for multiple device-associated infections (CAUTI, VAP, CLABSI) and process measures like hand hygiene compliance (72.2% to 88.9%).
• Study design is clearly described as a single-cohort pre-post measurement with defined patient counts (2,975 pre, 1,522 post).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is from a single specialized oncology hospital ICU, which may limit generalizability to other settings.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Meng Zhang.

Collection Method

Single-cohort study with pre-post measurements conducted in the ICU of a tertiary Grade A specialized oncology hospital.

Time Range

Pre-implementation period: January to December 2024. Post-implementation period: January to June 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-22 06:08:42; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Likely China (inferred from author name and 'tertiary Grade A' hospital classification common in China).