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Table 5 Time to collection: HO BSI positive admissions by pathogen stain, SARS-CoV-2 period and testing status

From: Epidemiology and outcomes of culture-positive bloodstream pathogens prior to and during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: a multicenter evaluation

Hospital day of culture collection

Pre-SARS-CoV-2: July 2019–February 2020 (1,789,449 Admissions)

Post-SARS-CoV-2 March 2020—September 4, 2021

SARS-CoV-2 + (170,402 Admissions)

SARS-CoV-2—(1,737,037 Admissions)

Not Tested (1,542,804 Admissions)

Total

GN

GP

Fungus/

Yeast

Poly

Total

GN

GP

Fungus/

Yeast

Poly

Total

GN

GP

Fungus/

Yeast

Poly

Total

GN

GP

Fungus/

Yeast

Poly

Day 3

16.1%

14.2%

20.8%

8.4%

10.6%

3.1%

3.4%

4.1%

0.8%

0.0%

15.8%

14.6%

19.8%

8.5%

10.5%

15.5%

14.9%

18.4%

4.8%

18.2%

Day 4

26.8%

24.0%

33.8%

14.4%

23.1%

7.1%

6.3%

9.4%

3.6%

3.8%

27.7%

25.4%

33.9%

17.3%

19.6%

26.7%

26.8%

30.0%

11.8%

31.2%

Day 5

35.5%

32.1%

44.1%

18.9%

33.7%

10.2%

8.2%

14.0%

5.6%

5.8%

36.2%

32.6%

43.8%

24.7%

28.0%

34.2%

32.3%

40.0%

15.6%

40.3%

Day 6

43.1%

39.2%

52.2%

25.7%

42.3%

14.0%

10.8%

19.0%

7.6%

13.5%

43.4%

38.2%

52.5%

30.7%

39.9%

40.5%

37.2%

48.1%

20.4%

44.2%

Day 7

49.5%

46.4%

58.5%

31.1%

45.2%

17.8%

13.4%

24.2%

11.2%

13.5%

49.4%

44.8%

58.7%

35.1%

44.8%

46.9%

45.3%

54.0%

24.7%

48.1%

Day 8

54.1%

51.7%

62.8%

34.7%

49.0%

22.5%

19.2%

29.0%

14.1%

17.3%

54.9%

50.4%

64.5%

39.1%

51.0%

53.1%

51.3%

60.3%

31.2%

53.2%

Day 9

58.9%

56.5%

67.2%

40.7%

52.9%

27.4%

23.4%

34.5%

19.3%

19.2%

58.9%

54.7%

68.4%

41.8%

57.3%

57.0%

55.0%

64.8%

34.4%

55.8%

Day 10

63.0%

61.0%

70.3%

46.1%

59.6%

32.3%

29.2%

38.5%

24.9%

23.1%

62.8%

59.1%

71.2%

46.7%

63.6%

62.4%

60.6%

70.1%

40.3%

58.4%

Day 11

66.7%

65.2%

73.7%

49.7%

62.5%

36.7%

33.4%

43.5%

28.1%

26.9%

66.2%

63.0%

74.4%

50.4%

65.0%

66.5%

66.1%

73.4%

43.5%

62.3%

Day 12

69.1%

67.8%

75.7%

53.0%

63.5%

40.6%

36.6%

47.1%

34.5%

28.8%

69.5%

66.6%

77.4%

54.0%

66.4%

69.4%

70.1%

75.5%

45.7%

64.9%

Day 13

71.9%

70.7%

78.2%

56.6%

65.4%

44.9%

39.7%

52.2%

38.6%

34.6%

71.8%

68.9%

79.2%

57.1%

69.9%

72.4%

73.2%

77.4%

51.6%

68.8%

Day 14

74.7%

73.9%

80.3%

58.7%

73.1%

48.6%

42.4%

55.4%

44.2%

40.4%

74.3%

72.1%

81.1%

60.0%

72.0%

74.9%

75.3%

79.5%

57.5%

70.1%

Day 15

77.0%

76.6%

82.1%

61.7%

76.0%

52.4%

45.8%

59.5%

48.6%

42.3%

76.7%

74.7%

83.0%

63.5%

74.8%

77.8%

78.1%

81.9%

61.8%

75.3%

 > Day 15

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

100.0%

Total HO Admissions

2771

1188

1145

334

104

1244

380

563

249

52

4028

1610

1725

550

143

1592

616

713

186

77

HO BSI/1000 Adm

1.55

0.66

0.64

0.19

0.06

7.30b

2.23b

3.30b

1.46b

0.31b

2.32b

0.93b

0.99b

0.32b

0.08b

1.03b

0.40b

0.46b

0.12b

0.05

Time to HO culture collection

 Avg ± SD (Median)

11.0 ± 13.1 (7)

11.2 ± 12.6 (7)

9.5 ± 12.4 (5)

15.8 ± 16.8 (11)

10.5 ± 8.9 (8)

17.5 ± 15.2b (14)b

19.8 ± 16.1b (16)

15.8 ± 15.2b (12)

17.4 ± 11.8 (15)

20.9 ± 18.6b (16.5)

11.4 ± 15.4 (7)

12.4 ± 18.1a (7)

9.6 ± 13.4 (5)

13.8 ± 12.3 (10)

11.3 ± 11.5 (7)

11.4 ± 13.7 (7)

11.3 ± 12.9 (7)

9.5 ± 10.4 (6)

17.9 ± 12.8 (12)

12.6 ± 16.4 (7)

  1. aP < 0.05 for bivariate correlations compared to the pre-SARS-CoV-2 period; bP ≤ 0.00662 for bivariate correlations compared to the pre-SARS-CoV-2 period