Table 1 Hospital diagnoses of 29,273 inpatients who were not hospitalized in the preceding 30 days and who had blood cultures taken within the first 2 days of hospital admission‡.
Blood culture | ||
|---|---|---|
Hospital registry diagnosis | Negative No. (%) | Positive No. (%) |
Total | 26,625 | 2,648 |
Acute or subacute infectious diseases | ||
Primary discharge diagnosis | 11,481 (43.1) | 2,010 (75.9) |
Primary or secondary discharge diagnosis | 13,928 (52.3) | 2,256 (85.2) |
Pneumonia | 7,107 (26.7) | 678 (25.6) |
Urinary tract infection | 2,567 (9.6) | 534 (20.2) |
Intestinal infectious disease | 1,034 (3.9) | 77 (2.9) |
Fever of unknown origin | 768 (2.9) | 20 (0.8) |
Neoplasm | 1,124 (4.2) | 42 (1.6) |
Anemia | 283 (1.1) | 9 (0.3) |
Diabetes | 406 (1.5) | 12 (0.5) |
Neurological or psychiatric disease | 605 (2.3) | 11 (0.4) |
Cardiovascular disease | 2,836 (10.7) | 66 (2.5) |
Respiratory disease | 1,772 (6.7) | 28 (1.1) |
Gastrointestinal disease | 1,062 (4.0) | 87 (3.3) |
Skin, connective tissue, or musculoskeletal disease | 740 (2.8) | 21 (0.8) |
Renal and urinary tract disease | 271 (1.0) | 23 (0.8) |
Symptoms without a specific diagnosis* | 2,158 (8.3) | 54 (2.1) |
Injury and poisoning from medicines | 317 (1.2) | 6 (0.2) |
Other† | 309 (1.2) | 8 (0.3) |