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Drawbacks:

Treats all infections as though they are of equal importance.

Obscuring changes in uncommon but important infections by unimportant but common ones.

Does not distinguish between one infection & multiple infections in one patient.

May underestimate.

Does not account high risk patients.

Does not account length of stay.

Unadjusted rates can’t be compared with rate of other hospitals.