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DAI rates were calculated as the number of infections per 100 ICU patients and per 1,000 device-days.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S0899823X00194991_abs3\"><jats:title>Results.<\/jats:title><jats:p>During the 3-year study, 2,172 patients hospitalized in an ICU for an aggregate duration of 14,603 days acquired 266 DAIs, for an overall DAI rate of 12.2%, or 18.2 DAIs per 1,000 patient-days. Central venous catheter (CVC)\u2013related bloodstream infection (BSI) (47.4% of DAIs; 11.3 cases per 1,000 catheter-days) was the most common DAI, followed by ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) (32.3% of DAIs; 10.0 cases per 1,000 ventilator-days) and catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) (20.3% of DAIs; 4.3 cases per 1,000 catheter-days). Overall, 65.4% of all <jats:italic>Staphylococcus aureus<\/jats:italic> infections were caused by methicillin-resistant strains; 40.0% of Enterobacteriaceae isolates were resistant to ceftriaxone and 28.3% were resistant to ceftazidime; and 40.0% of <jats:italic>Pseudomonas aeruginosa<\/jats:italic> isolates were resistant to fluoroquinolones, 50.0% were resistant to ceftazidime, 33.3% were resistant to piperacillin-tazobactam, and 19.0% were resistant to imipenem. The crude unadjusted attributable mortality was 16.9% among patients with VAP (relative risk [RR], 1.93; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.24-3.00; <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = .002); 18.5 among those with CVC-associated BSI (RR, 2.02; 95% CI, 1.42-2.87; <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>&lt;.001); and 10.5% among those with CAUTI (RR, 1.58; 95% CI, 0.78-3.18; <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = .19).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S0899823X00194991_abs4\"><jats:title>Conclusion.<\/jats:title><jats:p>The rates of DAI in the Colombian ICUs were lower than those published in some reports from other Latin American countries and were higher than those reported in US ICUs by the NNIS. 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