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Table 3 Age-adjusted time trends in bloodstream infection (BSI) incidence stratified by sex. The table shows BSI rate ratios per calendar year by Poisson regression

From: Burden of bloodstream infection in an area of Mid-Norway 2002-2013: a prospective population-based observational study

 

Females

Males

 

BSI rate ratio (95% CI)

p-value

BSI rate ratio (95% CI)

p-value

BSI, allover

1.028 (1.010–1.047)

0.003

1.011(0.993–1.029)

0.22

Place of acquisition

 Community acquired

0.998 (0.973–1.024)

0.88

0.976 (0.950–1.004)

0.09

 Health care-associated

1.080 (1.047–1.114)

<0.001

1.053 (1.024–1.083)

<0.001

 Hospital acquired

1.009 (0.954–1.067)

0.76

0.999 (0.956–1.043)

0.96

Infection focus

 Urinary tract

1.056 (1.027–1.086)

<0.001

1.041 (1.008–1.075)

0.013

 Lungs

1.021 (0.974–1.071)

0.39

0.969 (0.930–1.010)

0.14

 Biliary tract

1.017 (0.959–1.079)

0.57

0.993 (0.944–1.045)

0.80

 Gastrointestinal tract

1.017 (0.933–1.108)

0.70

1.052 (0.975–1.136)

0.19

 Skin or soft tissue

0.934 (0.868–1.005)

0.069

0.979 (0.920–1.042)

0.51

 Other

0.989 (0.935–1.045)

0.69

1.040 (0.991–1.091)

0.11

 Unknown

1.043 (0.981–1.109)

0.17

0.987 (0.935–1.041)

0.64

Microbe group

 Gram-negative BSI

1.043 (1.019–1.068)

<0.001

1.020 (0.995–1.046)

0.12

 Gram-positive BSI

0.997 (0.966–1.030)

0.87

0.993 (0.968–1.020)

0.62

 Polymicrobial or fungal BSI

1.031 (0.936–1.135)

0.54

1.095 (1.007–1.190)

0.034

Microbes (the four most common)

Escherichia coli

1.044 (1.015–1.073)

0.003

1.002 (0.967–1.037)

0.92

Streptococcus pneumoniae

1.007 (0.954–1.063)

0.80

0.908 (0.860–0.958)

<0.001

Staphylococcus aureus

0.988 (0.926–1.055)

0.73

1.032 (0.984–1.082)

0.20

Klebsiella spp.

1.136 (1.053–1.224)

0.001

1.094 (1.020–1.175)

0.012