Gasch, OriolBadia Cebada, LaiaCarmezim, JoaoVaqué, MontserratPomar, VirginiaMoreno, EncarnaMarrón, AnnaJiménez Martínez, EmilioGarcía Quesada, Maria JoséGarcia Alarcón, XavierDomènech, DolorsCàmara, JordiAndrés, MartaPeñafiel, JudithPorrón, RosarioLimón, EnricCalbo, EstherPujol, Miquel2023-01-132023-01-132022-11-011080-6059https://hdl.handle.net/2445/192169We compared hospital-acquired catheter-related bacte-remia (CRB) episodes diagnosed at acute care hospitals in Catalonia, Spain, during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 with those detected during 2007-2019. We com-pared the annual observed and predicted CRB rates by using the negative binomial regression model and calcu-lated stratified annual root mean squared errors. A total of 10,030 episodes were diagnosed during 2007-2020. During 2020, the observed CRB incidence rate was 0.29/103 patient-days, whereas the predicted CRB rate was 0.14/103 patient-days. The root mean squared er-ror was 0.153. Thus, a substantial increase in hospital-acquired CRB cases was observed during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 compared with the rate predicted from 2007-2019. The incidence rate was expected to increase by 1.07 (95% CI 1-1.15) for every 1,000 COVID-19-re-lated hospital admissions. We recommend maintaining all CRB prevention efforts regardless of the coexistence of other challenges, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.9 p.application/pdfengDomini públic/Public domain, 2022http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/Pandèmia de COVID-19, 2020-CatètersBacteriologia mèdicaCOVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-CathetersMedical bacteriologyinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article2023-01-11info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess36191608