R386-705-20. Central Line Days.

(1) Each facility required to report under this rule shall report central line patient days.

(a) The facility shall count the number of patients who were at least one year of age and with a central line in place and resident in the ICU at the time of the count.

(b) The count shall be performed at the same time each day, within 1 hour before or after the target time, during the reporting period.

(c) A patient with two or more central lines in place at the time of the count is counted as one patient with a central line on that day.

(d) The facility shall calculate the sum of the individual daily counts for each day in the reporting period to arrive at the total for the reporting period.

(2) The number of central line days may be estimated based on a valid sampling method.