Active surveillance for carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in a medical intensive care unit: Can it predict and reduce subsequent infections and the use of colistin?

Active surveillance has good specificity and negative predictive value for subsequent CRAB infection. Active surveillance followed by IECP was inversely associated with the acquisition of CRAB and subsequent CRAB infection, and was associated with a reduction in colistin use in ICU patients.