A program for audit of infections and antibiotic resistance in critical ill

Methods Records from ICU patients (including i.e. reason of admission, illness severity score, interventions and nursing workload, adverse events, outcome in the ICU) were collected in the Swedish Intensive Care Registry (SIR). Mortality data was added weekly for each episode of care (EOC). A web service was developed for individual collection of results from microbiological cultures and analyses for each EOC. Development of the web service included a detailed and cumbersome translation of laboratory specific nomenclatures for samples, cultures, microbials and methods.