Availability of data and materials
nosocomial infections
NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS, NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS
The datasets generated and analysed during the current study are not publicly available as data was collected by the German nosocomial infections surveillance system of intensive care units “ICU-KISS” hosted by the National Reference Center for Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections. The National Reference Center for Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections is committed by a non-disclosure agreement with the hospitals voluntarily participating in ICU-KISS on a confidential basis. It is illegal to publish unaggregated data that enables identification of individual hospitals directly or through a third party. Data sets are available from the National Reference Center for Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections Data Access Committee on reasonable request. Decisions on data requests will consider planned data use, compliance as well as measures for protection of privacy and data security. No individual ward-level results, only aggregated data (e.g. counts, distributions) may be provided. Scientists may send their statement of interest in the trial data to: Data Access Committee Nationales Referenzzentrum (NRZ) für Surveillance von nosokomialen Infektionen at the Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin (nrz@charite.de).