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Table 1 Agreement across the various sources of infection

From: Use of Centre for Disease Control criteria to classify infections in critically ill patients: results from an interobserver agreement study

Source of infection

Agreement/total number

Lower respiratory tract

86/90 (96%)

Community-acquired pneumonia

28/32 (88%)

Hospital-acquired pneumonia

32/39 (82%)

Ventilator-acquired pneumonia

12/17 (71%)

Abdominal

34/36 (91%)

Secondary peritonitis

21/24 (88%)

Primary peritonitis

2/2 (100%)

Intra-abdominal abscess

3/5 (70%)

Bloodstream

30/34 (94%)

Line infection

22/26 (85%)

Primary bloodstream infection

4/5 (80%)

Central nervous system

10/11 (91%)

Secondary meningitis

5/7 (79%)

Primary meningitis

4/4 (100%)