Skip to main content

Table 1 Distribution by specialties, number of patients, samples collected, positive samples, average per patient and percentage of positive blood cultures of 2,309 samples collected from 1,017 patients diagnosed with sepsis

From: Microbiological characteristics of sepsis in a University hospital

Medical specialty

Patients

Samples collected

Positive samples

Positive average per patient

% of positivity

p-value*

OR (95% CI)

N

%

N

%

N

%

OEU – UER

440

43.26

862

37.33

139

28.43

1.96

16.13

<0.001

0.603 (0.481 – 0.753)

Internal medicine

113

11.11

296

12.82

35

7.16

2.62

11.82

<0.001

0.461 (0.309 – 0.669)

Neonatology

104

10.23

306

13.25

82

16.77

2.94

26.8

0.0139

1.435 (1.075 – 1.903)

ICU adult

134

13.18

362

15.68

112

22.90

2.70

30.93

<0.001

1.865 (1.439 – 2.409)

ICU pediatric

34

3.34

73

3.16

16

3.27

2.15

21.92

0.969

1.046 (0.555 – 1.868)

Trauma surgery

31

3.05

67

2.90

18

3.68

2.16

26.87

0.315

1.381 (0.745 – 2.44)

Coronary unit

27

2.65

58

2.51

29

5.93

2.15

50.00

<0.001

3.89 (2.219 – 6.821)

Pediatric ward

16

1.57

29

1.26

5

1.02

1.81

17.24

0.801

0.773 (0.261 – 1.937)

Other

118

11.60

256

11.09

53

10.84

2.13

20.35

0.917

0.968 (0.689 – 1.343)

Total

1,017

100.0

2,309

100.0

489

100.0

2.27

21.18

  
  1. N = number of patients. *Statistical analysis performed by Exact Fisher Test. Positive association is shown in bold.