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Table 3 Hospital disposition and re-admissions according to presence of bacteraemia and carbapenem resistance

From: Burden of illness in US hospitals due to carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative urinary tract infections in patients with or without bacteraemia

 

Overall, N=47,496

With bacteraemia, n=11,629

Without bacteraemia, n=35,867

Characteristic

CR, n=2076

CS, n=45,420

P value

CR, n=201

CS, n=11,428

P value

CR, n=1875

CS, n=33,992

P value

Discharge status, n (%)

         

In-hospital death

96 (4.6)

2100 (4.6)

<0.001

21 (10.5)

690 (6.0)

<0.001

75 (4.0)

1410 (4.1)

<0.001

Home

798 (38.4)

23,174 (51.0)

 

62 (30.8)

6321 (55.3)

 

736 (39.3)

16,853 (49.6)

 

Hospice

108 (5.2)

2049 (4.5)

 

14 (7.0)

463 (4.1)

 

94 (5.0)

1586 (4.7)

 

Other

197 (9.5)

3097 (6.8)

 

18 (9.0)

655 (5.7)

 

179 (9.5)

2442 (7.2)

 

Transfer

877 (42.2)

15,000 (33.0)

 

86 (42.8)

3299 (28.9)

 

791 (42.2)

11,701 (34.4)

 

Patients who were alive when they were discharged from hospital, n (%)

CR, n=1980

CS, n=43,320

P value

CR, n=180

CS, n=10,738

P value

CR, n=1800

CS, n=32,582

P value

Readmission with the same pathogena

448 (22.6)

5845 (13.5)

<0.001

35 (19.4)

1314 (12.2)

0.004

413 (22.9)

4531 (13.9)

<0.001

Readmission within 30 days

136 (6.9)

1174 (2.7)

 

12 (6.7)

263 (2.5)

 

124 (6.9)

911 (2.8)

 

Readmission between 31–60 days

60 (3.0)

802 (1.9)

 

9 (5.0)

204 (1.9)

 

51 (2.8)

598 (1.8)

 

Readmission between 61–90 days

49 (2.5)

547 (1.3)

 

3 (1.7)

121 (1.1)

 

46 (2.6)

426 (1.3)

 

Readmission beyond 90 days

203 (10.3)

3322 (7.7)

 

11 (6.1)

726 (6.8)

 

192 (10.7)

2596 (8.0)

 

Days between discharge from index hospitalisation to readmission in patients who were alive when they were discharged from hospital

         

Mean (SD)

168.1 (234.8)

244.4 (295.2)

<0.001

102.4 (157.2)

251.6 (304.9)

<0.001

173.7 (239.6)

242.3 (292.3)

<0.001

Median (Q1–Q3)

81 (25.0–201.5)

121 (39.0–341.0)

<0.001

52 (19.0–121.0)

117 (38.0–356.0)

<0.001

83 (27.0–210.0)

122 (39.0–338.0)

<0.001

  1. CR Carbapenem resistant, CS Carbapenem susceptible, SD Standard deviation, UTI Urinary tract infection
  2. aReadmission: patients with > 1 inpatient encounter were flagged as readmission. Time to readmission was calculated as the number of days from discharge of the index hospitalisation to the first readmission date