Table 1: Incidence rate of VRE-positive blood cultures per 100 000 patient-days in Ontario between January 2009 and June 2015, overall and by whether VRE screening and isolation practices were ceased or continued

Variable	Incidence rate per 100 000 patient-days
Variable	Total n = 395	Screening ceased n = 194	Screening continued n = 201
Hospital type
Acute teaching	1.74	2.50	1.11
Large community	0.47	0.41	0.48
Small community	1.81	0.88	2.13
Case attribution
Reporting facility	0.81	1.70	0.54
Other facility	0.07	0.07	0.06
Unknown	0.16	0.36	0.09
Year
2009	0.94	2.54	0.43
2010	0.55	1.38	0.30
2011	0.82	1.67	0.56
2012	1.13	1.75	0.94
2013	1.21	2.74	0.74
2014	1.36	2.48	1.00
2015	1.37	2.60	0.97

Note: VRE = vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus.