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Table 2 Comparison of prevalence of nosocomial infection among departments

From: Changes in prevalence of nosocomial infection pre- and post-COVID-19 pandemic from a tertiary Hospital in China

Dept.

Pre- COVID-19

Post- COVID-19

P

Hematological

5.29%(316/5975)

3.66%(230/6281)

0.000

ICU

5.03%(33/656)

6.20%(31/500)

0.389

GI

4.51%(65/1440)

0.99%(12/1216)

0.000

Neonatal

3.11%(73/2349)

1.75%(30/1714)

0.007

Neurological

2.82%(80/2832)

1.17%(27/2315)

0.000

Respiratory

2.53%(140/5540)

0.51%(20/3956)

0.000

Kidney

2.53%(53/2099)

1.56%(25/1599)

0.044

Cardiological

2.31%(38/1648)

1.06%(16/1506)

0.007

ID

1.93%(71/3676)

0.57%(12/2112)

0.000

Surgery

1.17%(134/11429)

0.72%(73/10122)

0.001

Endocrine

0.79%(18/2270)

0.15%(5/3324)

0.000

  1. Dept. department, ICU intensive care unit, GI gastrointestinal department, ID inflectional disease department