410 Section 7 ■ HEALTHCARE STATISTICS AND RESEARCH METHODS CASE 7-9 Infection Rates As…

410 Section 7 ■ HEALTHCARE STATISTICS AND RESEARCH METHODS CASE 7-9 Infection Rates As the HIM manager at Blue Glacier Hospital, you are responsible for reporting hospital statistics. The hospital had 1,652 discharges for September and infection control data reflect there were 21 nosocomial infections and 27 community-acquired infections for the same month. Calculate the following statistics to be reported to the hospital Quality Improvement Council. 1. What is the nosocomial infection rate (round to two decimal places)? 2. What is the community-acquired infection rate (round to two decimal places)? The hospital data also reflect that 820 surgical operations were performed during September. The infection control coordinator reports three postoperative infections resulted from clean surgical cases. 3. Calculate the postoperative infection rate for September (round to two decimal places). 4. Calculate the total infection rate for the hospital linclusive of nosocomial and community-acquired infections and round to two decimal places). 5. Develop an Excel graph to report the infection rates for the hospital. Remember to title and label the axes appropriately.