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Table 2 Incidence rate ratios of overall blood stream 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 linka

  

IRR

SE†

(95% CI)†

P-value

AIDS

2.14

0.63

(1.20 to 3.82)

.010

Alcohol/Drugs

0.52

0.15

(0.29 to 0.93)

.028

Coronary care

0.74

0.05

(0.66 to 0.84)

< .001

Hospice care

0.84

0.07

(0.71 to 0.99)

.041

Infectious diseases

2.72

0.45

(1.97 to 3.76)

< .001

Plastic surgery

0.49

0.07

(0.38 to 0.64)

< .001

Oncology

1.60

0.17

(1.29 to 1.98)

< .001

Bone marrow transplants

1.52

0.22

(1.14 to 2.03)

.004

QIC

1844.93

    
  1. aAR 1 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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