Colorado

Footnotes

Healthcare-Associated Infections

• HAIs on this page include Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI), Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI), Surgical Site Infections (SSI), Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) infections, MRSA Bacteremia, and Ventilator-Associated Events (VAE).
• Data are only displayed for U.S. states/territories for which at least 5 facilities reported an HAI in the given survey year.
• All HAI data provided on this page is maintained by the CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN).
• General Acute Care Hospitals: general, children's, oncology, military/VA, and other specialty hospitals.
• Map legends are classified using the Jenks Natural Breaks method.
• See the Current HAI Progress Report Technical Appendix for the full methodology and details about the data. Past HAI Progress Reports are described in the Data Archive.
• HAI information available in the Patient Safety Portal include data from 2015 to 2024.

Antimicrobial Resistance

• HAIs include Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI), Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI), Surgical Site Infection (SSI).
• CI (Confidence Interval) - The national, regional, and state-level data included in Antibiotic Resistance information are displayed with 95% confidence intervals around the percent resistance, which were calculated using a mid-P exact test and are an indication of precision.
• Map legends are classified using the Jenks Natural Breaks method.

Outpatient Antibiotic Use

• These data are from the IQVIA database and reflect all outpatient antibiotic prescriptions dispensed to humans from U.S. community pharmacies. These data do not include antibiotic prescriptions dispensed from federal facilities.
• Data reflect annual rates of antibiotic prescriptions dispensed per 1,000 population, i.e. the number of antibiotic prescriptions dispensed per year for every 1,000 persons. Annual rates allow for comparisons of the number of antibiotic prescriptions dispensed in different geographic areas or over time while controlling for differences in the size of the underlying population.
• Map legends are classified using the Jenks Natural Breaks method.
• Due to missing data, totals by age group and/or sex may not add up to all prescriptions. Antibiotic class defines a set of related antibiotics. State-level rates of penicillins, macrolides, cephalosporins, and fluoroquinolones are displayed. Also displayed are all antibiotic classes, which include these four classes plus additional classes not available for release at the state level.
• Data are not available for geographic regions smaller than states.

Inpatient Antibiotic Use

• SAAR agent category definitions:

  Broad Spectrum Hospital-Onset

  - Broad spectrum antibacterial agents predominantly used for hospital-onset infections

  Broad Spectrum Community-Acquired

  - Broad spectrum antibacterial agents predominantly used for community-acquired infections

  Gram-Positive

  - Antibacterial agents predominantly used for resistant gram-positive infections (e.g., MRSA)

  Narrow Spectrum Beta-Lactam

  - Narrow spectrum beta-lactam agents

  Clostridioides difficile

  - Antibacterial agents posing the highest risk for CDI

  Antifungal

  - Antifungal agents predominantly used for invasive candidiasis

  Azithromycin

  - Pediatric azithromycin

  Vancomycin

  - Neonatal vancomycin

  Cephalosporins

  - Third generation Cephalosporins

  Ampicillin

  - Neonatal ampicillin

  Aminoglycosides

  - Neonatal aminoglycosides

  Fluconazole

  - Neonatal fluconazole

  Broad Spectrum Gram Negative Coverage

  - Neonatal broad spectrum gram negative coverage

• Only patient care locations reporting 9 months or more were included in analyses. Analyses were limited to SAAR locations reporting from eligible facility types.

Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship

• Although the vast majority of hospitals in the United States participate in NHSN, the antibiotic stewardship data summarized in this Portal may not be representative of all acute care hospitals in the United States. Also, because participation in NHSN varies by state and by year, caution should be used when making direct comparisons of uptake of core elements between states and across years.
• Map legends are classified using the Jenks Natural Breaks method.

Long-term Care Antibiotic Stewardship

• Participation in NHSN LTCF Component varies by state and year. Data summarized in this Portal may not be representative of all long-term care facilities in the United States. Caution should be used when making direct comparisons of uptake of core elements between states and across years.