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Published in final edited form as: Medicine (Baltimore). 2011 Mar;90(2):139–145. doi: 10.1097/MD.0b013e318211106a

TABLE 3.

Infections Causing Hospitalization

	Medication Group^*			P (1 vs 2)	P (1 vs 3)
	Group 1 No. (%)	Group 2 No. (%)	Group 3 No. (%)	P (1 vs 2)	P (1 vs 3)
Most Common HFI
Pneumonia	192 (30.1)	294 (30.3)	79 (28.3)	0.94	0.53
Bronchitis	110 (17.2)	155 (16.0)	40 (14.3)	0.49	0.51
Cellulitis	99 (15.5)	139 (14.3)	54 (19.4)	0.50	0.04
Urinary/kidney infection	56 (8.7)	101 (10.4)	16 (5.7)	0.29	0.02
Infection due to implant	23 (3.6)	38 (3.9)	10 (3.6)	0.63	0.80
Postoperative infection	22 (3.5)	31 (3.2)	14 (5.0)	0.65	0.15
Osteomyelitis	21 (3.3)	33 (3.4)	10 (3.6)	0.91	0.88
Diverticulitis	18 (2.8)	24 (2.5)	9 (3.2)	0.66	0.49
Septicemia	17 (2.7)	30 (3.2)	4 (1.4)	0.62	0.13
Intestinal infection	12 (1.9)	29 (3.0)	6 (2.2)	0.17	0.46

^*

See Table 1 for description of the medication groups.