1. THE COMMONWEALTH FUND Source: McCarthy and Leatherman, Performance Snapshots, 2006. www.cmwf.org/snapshots Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections: Rates Per 1,000 Days of Use Among Adult Intensive Care Unit Patients, Selected Hospitals, 1998–2003 Data: National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 2005). May not be representative of all U.S. hospitals.

2. THE COMMONWEALTH FUND Source: McCarthy and Leatherman, Performance Snapshots, 2006. www.cmwf.org/snapshots Central Line–Associated Bloodstream Infections: Rates Per 1,000 Days of Use Among Intensive Care Unit Patients, Selected Hospitals, 1998–2003 Data: National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 2005). May not be representative of all U.S. hospitals.

3. THE COMMONWEALTH FUND Source: McCarthy and Leatherman, Performance Snapshots, 2006. www.cmwf.org/snapshots Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: Rates Per 1,000 Days of Use Among Intensive Care Unit Patients, Selected Hospitals, 1998–2003 Data: National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 2005). May not be representative of all U.S. hospitals. New criteria for defining nosocomial pneumonia were adopted in 2002.