Table 3 Pool mean of the incidence (per 100 patient-months) of dialysis events in participating dialysis units.

From: Surveillance of Dialysis Events: one-year experience at 33 outpatient hemodialysis centers in China

Type of accessa

Percentile

USA 2006

Ireland 2010b

Kuwait 2012b

Pooled mean

10%

25%

50%

75%

90%

Pooled mean

Incidence

Incidence

IV antimicrobial start

 Fistula

0.84

0.00

0.00

0.17

1.15

3.46

1.8

1.77

5.9

 Tunneled CL

1.84

0.00

0.00

0.71

4.17

7.00

6.4

NA

11.8

 Non-tunneled CL

2.25

0.00

0.00

0.00

6.91

19.15

25.4

NA

11.2

BSI

 Fistula

0.02

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.18

0.5c

0

0.2

 Tunneled CL

0.24

0.00

0.00

0.00

1.28

3.12

4.2d

NA

1.9

 Non-tunneled CL

0.34

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.87

4.22

27.1d

NA

2.7

LASI

 Fistula

0.10

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.11

0.42

0.2

0

0.4

 Tunneled CL

0.48

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.58

1.98

1.7

NA

2.4

 Non-tunneled CL

0.64

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.04

5.05

5.1

NA

4.2

ARB

 Fistula

0.02

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.05

0.2

0

0.1

 Tunneled CL

0.18

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.05

1.18

3.1

NA

1.4

 Non-tunneled CL

0.34

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.16

3.43

17.8

NA

2.4

VAI

  Fistula

0.12

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.13

0.50

0.4

0

0.5

  Tunneled CL

0.66

0.00

0.00

0.00

1.35

2.87

4.8

NA

3.7

  Non-tunneled CL

0.99

0.00

0.00

0.00

2.01

5.71

22.9

NA

6.6

  1. aThe pooled means in the studies of Ireland and Kuwait are not available. NA, not available.
  2. bCL, central line.
  3. cThe 2014 rate of BSI for fistula in USA was 0.26 (https://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/pdfs/dialysis/bsi-rate-vat-de-2014.pdf).
  4. dThe 2014 rate of BSI for CL (not stratified for tunneled and non-tunneled) in USA was 2.16 (https://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/pdfs/dialysis/bsi-rate-vat-de-2014.pdf).