Central line-associated bloodstream infections were 27 percentage points lower than national rates.
The state reports indicated, however, that rates for catheter-associated urinary tract infections, surgical site infections and coronary artery bypass graft, knee arthroplasty and abdominal hysterectomy surgical site infections, while a few percentage points lower, were not significantly different from national averages.
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