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Table 3 Incidence rate ratios of Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections for services provided by public hospitals in Queensland, Australia.

From: Improved hospital-level risk adjustment for surveillance of healthcare-associated bloodstream infections: a retrospective cohort study

Medical services

GEE Poisson with a log link

  

IRR

SE†

(95% CI)†

P-value

Alcohol/Drugs

0.81

0.07

(0.69 to 0.95)

.011

Diabetes

0.53

0.11

(0.36 to 0.80)

.002

Infectious diseases

3.91

0.82

(2.59 to 5.90)

< .001

Plastic surgery

0.57

0.09

(0.42 to 0.79)

.001

Maintenance renal dialysis

1.82

0.20

(1.47 to 2.26)

< .001

Oncology

1.73

0.14

(1.47 to 2.04)

< .001

QIC

817.95

    
  1. aAR 2 correlation
  2. † exchangeable standard errors were scaled by square root of Pearson χ2-based dispersion.
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BMC Infectious Diseases

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