Preventability of 196 episodes of hospital-acquired bloodstream infections (HA-BSIs) related to medical management
| Source | Surgical site | Urine | Lung | Intravascular catheter | Abdominal or gynaecological | Other | Total N = 341 |
| Secondary HA-BSIs | 41 | 58 | 23 | 67 | 55 | 28 | 272 (79.8) |
| HA-BSIs related to medical management | 41 | 44 | 16 | 67 | 14 | 14 | 196 (57.5) |
| Preventable | 6 | 9 | 1 | 47 | 1 | 2 | 66 (19.4) |
| Uncertain preventability | 25 | 23 | 11 | 18 | 2 | 5 | 84 (24.6) |
| Not preventable | 10 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 46 (13.5) |