All > Healthcare > Medicine > Healthcare Associated Infections

• The confidence interval for a hospital's standardized infection ratio (SIR) is the range of possible SIRs within which there is a 95 percent confidence that the real SIR for that hospital lies, given the number of infections and procedures that were observed in that hospital in a specific time period.

  CDC - Cite This Source - This Definition
  ×

  Cite Definition for Confidence Intervals

  American Psychological Association (APA)

  Confidence Intervals. (n.d.). HAI Glossary for Healthcare Data and Reporting. Retrieved February 9, 2023, from website: http://www.expertglossary.com/definition/confidence-intervals.

  Chicago Manual of Style (CMS)

  Confidence Intervals. www.cdc.gov. HAI Glossary for Healthcare Data and Reporting. CDC. http://www.expertglossary.com/definition/confidence-intervals (accessed: February 9, 2023).

  Modern Language Association (MLA)

  "Confidence Intervals." HAI Glossary for Healthcare Data and Reporting. CDC. 9 February. 2023 http://www.expertglossary.com/definition/confidence-intervals.

• Browse Related Terms: Acute Care Facility, Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC), Ambulatory Surgical Center, Ambulatory Surgical Facility, Confidence Intervals, HAI Prevention Collaborative, Iatrogenic Pneumothorax, Incidence Rate, Infection Rate, International Classification of Diseases - 9th revision - Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM), monitor, National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN), Nosocomial, Prevalence Rate, SSI Rate, Standardized infection ratio (SIR), Standardized Infection Ratio (SIR) Statistical Method