Table 2. Dose-response relationship of screening intensity and incidence of hospital-onset ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae in screening hospitals (2009).
Hospital | % of patients screened forESBL-E on admission | % of patients with a clinical ESBL-E isolate within 72 hours of admission without an admission screen | Incidence of HO-ESBL-E clinical isolates per 1,000 inpatient days |
R4 | 87.3 | 37.5 | 0.047 |
R6 | 62.7 | 47.1 | 0.058 |
R5 | 73.6 | 39.3 | 0.106 |
R1 | 41.3 | 13.3 | 0.106 |
R3 | 26.6 | 62.5 | 0.112 |
R2 | 47.1 | 72.3 | 0.154 |