Statics Question

Question

You are interested in calculating the hospital-acquired infection rate for the intensive care unit for the month of June. If the number of hospital-acquired infections is the numerator, what is the denominator?

Answer 1

The denominator would be the total number of patients in ICU for the month of June. That is because in order to determine the infection rate, we need to divide the number of individuals in the target population, in this case, those with a hospital-acquired infection, by the whole population, which is the number of patients in ICU in June.