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Table 3 Proportion of patients colonized or infected with MDRO before and after antimicrobial stewardship

From: Antimicrobial stewardship of Chinese ministry of health reduces multidrug-resistant organism isolates in critically ill patients: a pre-post study from a single center

Department

All patients (978)

Before management (433)

After management (545)

p value

All, n (%)

225 (23.01)

154 (35.57)

71 (13.03)

<0.001

Emergency, n (%)

86 (23.76)

54 (40.91)

32 (17.68)

<0.001

Surgery, n (%)

91 (19.24)

68 (33.17)

23 (8.58)

<0.001

Neurosurgery, n (%)

11 (13.75)

5 (29.41)

6 (9.52)

0.035

Thoracic surgery, n (%)

12 (10.52)

11 (20.37)

1 (1.67)

0.001

General surgery, n (%)

35 (26.92)

28 (40.00)

7 (11.67)

<0.001

Urology surgery, n (%)

10 (28.57)

8 (38.10)

2 (14.29)

0.252

Orthopedics, n (%)

8 (18.18)

8 (40.00)

0 (0)

0.001

Other, n (%)

13 (18.57)

6 (26.09)

7 (14.89)

0.258

Medicine, n (%)

50 (27.47)

34 (30.52)

16 (16.84)

0.033

Respiratory medicine, n (%)

10 (32.26)

8 (50.00)

2 (13.33)

0.054

Neurology, n (%)

13 (38.23)

8 (42.11)

5 (33.33)

0.728

Cardiology, n (%)

7 (15.22)

5 (21.73)

2 (8.70)

0.218

Other, n (%)

20 (25.00)

13 (35.14)

7 (16.28)

0.062