Six-year multicenter study on short-term peripheral venous catheters-related bloodstream infection rates in 204 intensive care units of 57 hospitals in 19 cities of India: International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) findings

•We report peripheral venous catheters (PVC)-related BSI rates from 2013 to 2019. •We collected prospective data from 204 ICUs in 57 hospitals in 19 cities of India. •We followed 7,513 ICU patients for 296,893 bed-days and 295,795 PVC-days. •We identified 863 PVC-related BSIs, amounting to a rate of 2.91/1,000 PVC-days. Background Short-term peripheral venous catheters-related bloodstream infections (PVCR-BSIs) rates have not been systematically...